Day 7 - Milan to Geneva
An uneventful night for Team XJ3 at Hotel Tiffany. Simon was snoring like a jack-hammer, we had the odd mosquito or two and the obligatory early morning’s start, though both Simon and Ian managed to sleep through Matt’s raucous alarm at 7:00, so we postponed our very own “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” until after 7:30.
A rather funny moment to kick off as we came downstairs. We left our parking spot last night to go to the pizza restaurant (through the red light district, it seems) and promptly lost it on our return. We were obliged to use the hotel’s pay-parking, especially as the off-side rear window had failed half-way down, leaving us prone to losing some of our precious, precious Travglini wines. We didn’t pay last night, so on checking-out this morning, the nice Italian hotelier asked us if we had paid for the garage, to which we harmonised a firm negative, for Simon to take further saying he’d actually rather not. The trouble with hotels, he claims, is that they make you pay for stuff that should be free (Notably car parking, and especially wireless internet access- S). It seemed to work, she didn’t actually fancy trying to make us pay so we just walked out, which was nice (incidentally, Simon managed to fix the window, so there’s no chance of a random Swiss person helping themselves to our Italian goods).
We took a quick trip into the Milan town centre, saw the splendid 15th Century castle first (I only know this because we tailed a tour guide for a few minutes) and proceeded onto the Gothic Duomo (two Duomos in two days – not bad going), the outside of “La Scala” theatre and a brief coffee to take in the many Milanese sights.
We decided to stop en route to Geneva for lunch so we piled into the Duchess and pointed her up the A4. We parked up in Aosta at 3 and decided to have a quick look around the shops before, seeing as it was our final calling point in Italy, having another pizza.
After this we pressed onto Geneva, first crossing the border into France via the Mont Blanc tunnel. The approach to the mountain itself was spectacular, with fabulous views of the Mont and surrounding peaks in the Grand Massif visible with a small amount of cloud. Simon was quite trigger-happy on the old digital camera, so there should be plenty of images for you to view in today’s update of our photobucket account.
A brief trip through France and we popped across to Geneva and found the “Suitehotel” where we are now with a minimum of fuss and even managed to see the famous fountain (the tallest in the World) on the way. The hotel managed to slightly mess up our booking – two of us almost had to share a double bed, but that was soon sorted on the promise that we didn’t touch anything in the original room. I don’t know what she expected us to have done in the two minutes we’d been in, but there you go. We’ve braved the public transport system already this evening, popping into the city for a brief look around and a quick meal - an Italian! Join us tomorrow for what promises to be an interesting trip up to Paris for our final night.
-I, M & S.
A rather funny moment to kick off as we came downstairs. We left our parking spot last night to go to the pizza restaurant (through the red light district, it seems) and promptly lost it on our return. We were obliged to use the hotel’s pay-parking, especially as the off-side rear window had failed half-way down, leaving us prone to losing some of our precious, precious Travglini wines. We didn’t pay last night, so on checking-out this morning, the nice Italian hotelier asked us if we had paid for the garage, to which we harmonised a firm negative, for Simon to take further saying he’d actually rather not. The trouble with hotels, he claims, is that they make you pay for stuff that should be free (Notably car parking, and especially wireless internet access- S). It seemed to work, she didn’t actually fancy trying to make us pay so we just walked out, which was nice (incidentally, Simon managed to fix the window, so there’s no chance of a random Swiss person helping themselves to our Italian goods).
We took a quick trip into the Milan town centre, saw the splendid 15th Century castle first (I only know this because we tailed a tour guide for a few minutes) and proceeded onto the Gothic Duomo (two Duomos in two days – not bad going), the outside of “La Scala” theatre and a brief coffee to take in the many Milanese sights.
We decided to stop en route to Geneva for lunch so we piled into the Duchess and pointed her up the A4. We parked up in Aosta at 3 and decided to have a quick look around the shops before, seeing as it was our final calling point in Italy, having another pizza.
After this we pressed onto Geneva, first crossing the border into France via the Mont Blanc tunnel. The approach to the mountain itself was spectacular, with fabulous views of the Mont and surrounding peaks in the Grand Massif visible with a small amount of cloud. Simon was quite trigger-happy on the old digital camera, so there should be plenty of images for you to view in today’s update of our photobucket account.
A brief trip through France and we popped across to Geneva and found the “Suitehotel” where we are now with a minimum of fuss and even managed to see the famous fountain (the tallest in the World) on the way. The hotel managed to slightly mess up our booking – two of us almost had to share a double bed, but that was soon sorted on the promise that we didn’t touch anything in the original room. I don’t know what she expected us to have done in the two minutes we’d been in, but there you go. We’ve braved the public transport system already this evening, popping into the city for a brief look around and a quick meal - an Italian! Join us tomorrow for what promises to be an interesting trip up to Paris for our final night.
-I, M & S.
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