6 posts tagged “milan”

It's 01.15 in the night. I am just back from Italy, and quite tired. I left 15 C in Milan, the same that I found here when landed...for once temperature here is the same that in Italy...for once I go to Italy, it rains...!!!! Nevertheless, now, seated on my bed, I am looking around me, trying to familiarize with the brand new bedroom. It's the first night I will sleep here. It's not too bad so far. I thought it would have felt different, weird, instead not. I am a bit "cold", like if it was a normal night, Not too excited, but this is me. Emotionless at time. But this is only one aspect, more I will see in the next days. When coming back I will find nobody at home, or eating every night on my own... I mean, not that I always chatted with my flatmates or had dinner together, but I knew they were always there... Don't get me wrong though, I was waiting this for long time now...for various reasons that house sharing brings along...
I am using somebody's Wi-Fi...funny cos I didn't catch it the other days, when I tried to connect from here. But i didn't need it...Anyway in the meantime that I will set up mine, it helps...
I reckon it will take still a month to clear up everything, unpack all the boxes and store everything, but no rush...I can take all the time I want. There is also something still to buy, many things in fact. Ikea...I will come back soon.
 

I am writing while flying back from Italy. We are due in Bristol in about 50 min. I am quite tired. It has been a long bank-holiday weekend, spent between Liguria and Tuscany. Rapallo, Chiavari, Portofino and then Florence, Pisa. I wish I had more time for all of that. I wanted to swim...but I was forbidden to do so... it was not actually very very hot, but enough to get an idea of tan of the face. Rapallo is nice, the city centre, the waterfront, the harbor... it is all there...it is quite small but there is everything you need (except car parks!), and the mountains...just there, by the sea. Picturesque. We wanted to visit Montallegro Sanctuary, as well as we wanted to go the the “cinque terre” but didn’t have time to do all of it. We had to go to Florence for Ale’s baptism on Saturday, and then rush to Pisa for dinner with friends...! The same old story...every time I am back is almost impossible to find time to rest and relax. But in the end this is a bit what I want...so no complains. Soon we will land in Bristol, and tomorrow morning is already time to go to work. I have an interesting week ahead, interesting cos there are few things I want to do by the end of it. If everything works it will be a good progress and a good satisfaction. If it does not it will be a progress anyway...cos there is to understand where the problem lies and fix it...and I will eventually. But let’s thing about that after a good sleep.

PS. I am at home now...but it is just funny to say that we landed in Bristol in a wind and drizzle storm, the kind of rain that make you wet in less than a minute... No need to say the drop in temperature, from the 22 Celsius of Milan to the 9 here tonight...

I have been here already...many years ago...It was 1998, September...and Fiorentina won 3-1 at San Siro...Batistuta scored a hat trick giving me one of the biggest satisfaction being a Fiorentina fan...! They have not been a lot...unfortunately...!
So after more than ten years I came back to San Siro...same emotions of the first time, but different result! Fiorentina didn't play actually bad, but we weren't lucky. Ac Mlan won 1-0. A shame cos it would have been as "icing on the cake" for the great weekend I spent in Milan...

I was nicely sleeping yesterday morning when the pilot voice broke off my rest. Approaching to Pisa is difficult due to fog, possible diversion to Milan Malpensa...Tommy was driving to Pisa, to pick me up. It was 10 o'clock, landing was scheduled in 25 min...
Tommy though never picked me up, simply because that airplane never touched Pisa International's runway...Landed in Milan at 10.30, we were kept on board until 14.30 to be ready to take off in case weather improvement was reported from Pisa. Then the decision. Disembark all the passengers, to be transferred to Pisa by coach... DISASTER...! I suspected what was proved to be true...! It's difficult to find 2 or  3 coaches in few minutes and two drivers as well...especially if it is the 24th of December... I experienced it before...and also that time it was a long wait.
The bus turned up at 17.30, just after Easyjet "kindly" offered us a 4.50 euro voucher to get a light refreshment at the terminal...(thanks a lot!). We arrived in Florence at 2145, 16 hours later I left my flat in the morning in Bristol...! Luckily the bunch of guys I was travelling with was really a great one...and a day spent together in misadventure is definitely a good glue. I have few more friends now. At least!

Merry Christmas, Buon Natale.

...AKA Bristol - Milan Malpensa this afternoon...and then a week-end travelling around Italy. A night near Varese, a wedding (the second in two week) on the Lake Maggiore and a dinner in Milan on Saturday...and finally at home on Sunday early morning...Just 24 hours and it will be time to go back to Bristol (from Pisa this time) on Monday morning...It will be tiring...but usually when is tiring is cool...cos there are many things to do...

I usually don't like to mix things up...but I have to say it today...!!! WELL DONE FIORENTINA!