After a quick flight from Manchester to Milan Bergamo airport, we found our chauffeur for the trip into the city and to the Aethos Milan hotel. We had arrived a few days after a huge storm hit the area, bringing down a lot of large trees across the city. The hotel was superb – the bar area was huge, a large part was effectively outdoors (enormous removeable roof), and it was packed full of random stuff. The rooms were really comfortable, and individually themed. Strangely the hotel was almost empty – we only saw a handful of other guests throughout. The reason is simple – Italians head out of the cities and go to the lakes for their summer break!
A walk in the heat locally to find lunch at a nearby café, we found the Colonne di San Lorenzo before heading to the Ambrosian Library – a huge museum with various exhibitions devoted to Leonardo da Vinci’s work including a large number of his engineering drawings. Fascinating stuff, and worth the visit.
To end the day we had dinner at Dinner at Blue M Milano (Bottega Marchigiana). The food and wine was exceptional, effectively a selection of local Italian delicatessen – very similar style to Pride and Provenance in Halifax.
