Adventure Number 2: Milan

The goodbyes were very hard ... I will never get used to that bit! However the flight was easy and I sat next to a pleasant Italian who told me exactly how to get from the airport into central Milan ... the airport serviced by the cheap airlines is about 35 miles from the city! 5 Euros later (I cannot find either the Euro symbol nor the apostrophe on this keyboard so please forgive the awful punctuation which will be a feature of the Italian posts!) and I was deposited at the Central station - a few moments later I was sitting in a taxi heading to my Hostel: I really could have walked but as it was dark I thought a taxi would get me there directly ... I have a habit of walking off happily in the wrong direction at crucial times! The hostel was clean and fresh, but shut when i arrived. The gods were once more smiling on me as an Italian girl had arrived shortly before me and had already phones the landlord - I do not have a phone that works abroad so that was just as well! He arrived and let us in, showing us both to the same 5 bed dormitory. No one spoke and so I settled down for the first night of my new adventure.
At 10.30 the next day I met up with my friend Janet whom I had known when she lived in The Vale of Clwyd until a few years ago. She and I spent a very pleasant day exploring the rooftop of the Cathedral, the castle and seeing Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper. I had been looking forward to the latter like a small child at Christmas and was not disappointed! It covers the whole end wall of a large Refectory and is very difficult to photograph due to the system of lighting they have installed. Anyway it is huge!!