We pack up our bags and venture over to the train station. Bye, bye Venice and hello, Milano (like the cookie!).
It is about a 2 hour train ride to Milan, which went by pretty quickly. We had almost a whole car to ourselves and the train, once again, was super nice.
We get to Milan and I really only wanted to see one thing. DOMUS! Tim and I decide to take a cab ride there, since we really don't know how far of a walk it would be. We get there and wow, the square is huge with another statue in the middle and, of course, a HUGE church. Funny enough, there was also a Milan Triathalon going on. We also walk into the Vittorio Emannuelle II Galleria. The structure is also large and has many shops in there that I couldn't afford to even step foot in. (i.e Prada, Louis Vutton, etc.) We walk around a little more before deciding to just head back to Savigliano. I knew we weren't going to stay there long considering neither Tim not I are in a high fashion state of mind.
We get a taxi ride back to the train station, another structure that looks more like a castle than a train station. We get in line to get our train tickets and ewwww. Someone smells overly bad. Like I wish I was wearing a face mask kind of bad. Oh foreshadowing, I dislike you...
We have to take two trains: Milan to Turin and Turin to Savigliano. The first train, it was kinda gross to begin with and the guy in the seats across the row from us had his shoes off. Another guy sits near him and every time he opens his mouth to yawn, I get the urge to vomit.
Just about an hour and a half later, we arrive in Turin. We get in line and although more people smell, I get distracted by all the cute puppies and dogs in my eye range. In Italy, for the most part, people supplement children for dogs. This is an idea I would love to try :o)
We get on the next train and what? Where did these kids come from? Why are their mothers letting them be SOOOO loud? Luckily, the kids weren't smelly or that would put this thing a little over the top.
We get to Savigliano and about 15 minutes after we arrived, Lilliana and Christina are there to pick us up. They drop us off at the hotel and make plans to meet with us for dinner. After waiting for their phone call for about 2 hours, we are sooooo hungry. We call them up instead and ask if we could eat now before our stomachs cave in.
Oh this lovely restaurant, with basically the same menu every night...I decide to get the tuna this time. It was reeeeeally good. And it went well with good conversation.
After to dinner, its time for this pleasant weekend to be over and for Tim to mentally start thinking about work for tomorrow. Back to the days by myself by the pool.
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