Taylor's travels : Milan Italy day 5

late last night I caught a bus going from Dubrovnik to split. About a 5 hour drive and it was awful because the bus was full and there was no air conditioning! And it doesn't cool down at night much, sticks between +28-33 all throughout the night. And I was trying to sleep because my plane was at 9am and when I got to Milan I had to start my day right away.

So didn't get much sleep on the bus, but my bus got to split at about 2am then I got a cab to the airport and then slept there until my plane left at 9. So I looked like the ultimate traveler because I was sleeping on my backpack in the airport for 6 hours.

Plane arrived in Milan at about 10 am. Me thinking I would get to the hostel about an hour and some after that. No I got there at 2! Milan is a massive city and the airport is far out of the city. So I caught a bus shuttle to the central train station where my directions on foot started (that I got from the hostel) I only take cabs when I absolutely need to. But if I can walk there and it's day time I will for sure do my best to walk there.

The directions were awful! I walked around for more than an hour looking for the place, finally finding it and the guys at reception were beyond useless. I checked into my room and had to take a cold shower because it was so hot. I met 2 girls from holland in the hostel who are also travelling through Europe for some of the summer, they were going to the cathedral so I asked to tag along because that's where I was going too.

We got to the cathedral and it was beautiful! The architect was amazing! We went inside for only a few euro. We did have to buy these jacket things to cover the shoulders and chest because it is "disrespectful" if you don't cover up. Which is how it was in Thailand aswell.

After the cathedral the girls from holland left to go to a music festival thing, I walked around the shopping centre next to the cathedral. And because it's Milan "fashion Capitol of the world" there were designer shops everywhere. Clearly me and my $5 Walmart tang tops were out of our element.

I took the metro back which was a little difficult because I took it towards the cathedral with the girls from holland who knew the system because they had been here for a few days, so getting there was no problem. Got off at the stop right before my hostel so I had to walk the rest of the way there. Thank god I had a map however to guide myself there.

I got back to the hostel and I met a girl from Sweden travelling alone also, she was really nice and we just chatted about our travels and such. Another solo traveler checked in when we were talking, she's from San Diego, super nice aswell. Us 3 made plans to go out to a bar for drinks a little later but ended up not going, it was really hot in the room (no air conditioning once again.) We all felt hot and gross and the heat was making us all sleepy so we said screw it and just went to bed.