Euro 07 - Italy

I saw light from the end of Tunnel Du Mont Blanc… Hello Italy! The first picture I took when we cross the Italy border.



Our first stop is at Milan and visited the most striking feature of the city, i.e. the Duomo, the large, white-marble cathedral. It is really beautiful and amazing. This cathedral was partly destroyed during the WWII and rebuilt after the war. It was huge. Milan is also the great place for shopping with a lot of posh, branded boutiques. This is where I bought my Gucci bag and wallet.




Truly amazing architecture but there was removation and maintenance works going on so the 2 signboards by the side spoilt the view.






Inside the church. Another huge church!

We spent most of the time walking around this city before going for another lousy chinese dinner in Milan and then head back to our hotel and prepare for the next city stop.

The second day in Italy brought us to Venice. Venice is special because it is indeed a water city. No other transport could enter this city except by boat or ship. We took the Gondola ride down the canal. Honestly, I find nothing extra special or exciting about the gondola ride. I think the Suzhou canal ride is much more beautiful. No joke. I am not pro-china, but indeed, I prefer the Suzhou canal ride.








Plenty of pigeons at the St Mark’s Square. On this square is the St Mark’s church.

The colorful mask of Venice used for some special festival. They are so beautiful and I was so tempted to buy one but it was too expensive. 80 euro for one, equivalent to RM400 for a mask.

Third stop in Italy is Florence. Florence is a total waste of time as it’s all about shopping, shopping, and shopping for the cheenas!! At least, we visited the Gothic cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. This is another church. I didn’t enter this church as I was getting bored with church visits. But the church building is another amazing architecture! Very beautiful.

We also saw a human statue, where if you throw some money to them, they started moving and make faces at you. Funner!

Then we went to the Piazza della Signoria where we can see many sculptures, one of them the famous naked ‘David’.

Florence's David sculpture... nothing much in to see in Florence except this naked piece of sculpture. Nice meh?

Another chruch in Florence.

The river of Florence.

The next day, we went to Rome and visited the Vatican City's Piazza San Pietro and Basillica. Holly COW!!! This is the most amazing church I have seen in this entire trip! Humongous!!! I was like ‘wah!’ here and there when I went into the church.

Very HUGE!!!

Then we went to visit the Fontana di Trevi. This is the famous wishing fountain in Rome where I can see many people tossing coins into the fountain to wish. I did not do that. My life is good enough and nothing more for me to wish for. I am complacent. :)

The cheena wanted to shop again (sigh!) and we went to the Piazza di Spagna where all the designer label boutiques are there. I bought another Gucci bag. Haha! I just love Gucci design, not so much an LV person.

The famous Piazza di Spagna or Spanish Steps.

The final day in Rome brought us to the Colleseum. Amazing! I can’t understand why this thing was built as it was used for barbaric games like killing between the humans with humans and humans with beasts. I wonder how many lives were taken inside this stadium.

I was pretty upset with my visit here because there wasn’t enough time. I didn’t get to enter the Colleseum because the queue was too long and we gotta rush to the airport to catch the flight back to Frankfurt. We don't even have time to visit the ancient temples and forums. All because the cheena want to spend more time shopping, so unfair. They even want to shop at supermarket and Carrefour! So stupid!

Not enough time in Rome. I want to visit Rome again for a free and easy tour. I can easily spend 1 day in Colleseum itself, admiring its beauty and understanding its history. Will be back to Rome someday!