Andrea Duntz; shopping enthusiast.
Total Amount of money spent while shopping in Milan: 17 Euro ($24.94)... on postcards and stamps (stamps are ridiculously priced at $1.47 a piece).
What I'm saying, and my mother can attest to this, is that it's truly amazing - an act of god if you will - that I didn't buy a single article of clothing. I'd planned on buying a coat here (I needed a new coat... see Vienna for further details) so was rather disappointed that I was unable to find anything in the only city that I'd actually planned to shop in.
Other than my complete dismay over the shopping situation IN MILAN?!??! (of all places... seriously....) it was alright. Our hotel was next to one of the major shopping streets (grrr...) so the location was good (but useless).
Of course we went to the Duomo (Duomo is Italian for Dom. Dom is German for cathedral. Cathedral is English... so this is where my explanation ends) and also to Sforza Castle (Castello Sforezesco - http://www.milanocastello.it/ing/lungaRestaurato.html) - both of which were very nice.
The picture below is of part of the Duomo. I was standing in front of the Duomo taking a picture of an adjacent building when a man came up to me and grabbed my wrist. Long story short:
Stinky ugly guy comes, grabs my wrist. I pull away. Stinky ugly guy grabs my wrist again. Stinky ugly guy puts something in my hand. "Something" is actually seeds. I realize this the same time a flock of pigeons do. For the next three minutes thirty-so pigeons gave me bird flu. Then stinky ugly guy tried to charge me for it (10 Euro = $14.67). I gave him 40 cents ( = $0.59) and pretended that I didn't understand English.
As I walked away another man approached me with a handful of string, he called them bracelets, and offered to sell me one for, "Only one Euro!" I again pretended not to be able to speak English and it was at this point that he said, "Italiano? Español? Français?" He speaks four languages and he's selling pieces of string next to stinky ugly guy.
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