Mateo and Milano

Woke up sick. 

Had breakfast at hostel. Very stingy breakfast there wasn't much available. 

Decided that I didn't care i was sick. 

I was meeting my friend Mateo today. For backstory I met Mateo in year 11 when he was in Australia on exchange. 

Left hostel at 10. Met Mateo at 11 at the Duomo. Also we met mateos long time girlfriend Irene. First they took us to the duomo ticket office where we got tickets naturally while talking and catching up. Mateo is currently studying med in Milan and Irene is studying Physics. Like med in Australia Mateo has a 6 year degrees plus 5 years in a hospital training and working. 

After getting tickets we had to buy Irene and bini scarves to cover up their exposed skin to get into the duomo. Irene was in a dress with bare shoulders and bini's shorts were too short. 

Anyway got into the duomo. It's huge!!!!! I never realised just how big from the outside. But it's the second largest church in Europe after St Marks church in the Vatican. Interesting it had no art on the roof as there supposedly wasn't a huge amount of artists in Milan however they had a huge amount  of glass makers so the stained glass windows in the cathedral are amazing. 

Also in duomo saw the crypt and an archaeology of the old church which now resides underneath the square infront of the duomo. 

Next we got deep fried calzone pizza thing. It's was great. We both had a tomato mozzarella one. Mateo had two. 

Next we got really expensive but nice Ice cream. 

Then went to mateos favourite Park. Which is a bit like botanic Park in adelaide but takes up a huge part of central milan. 

To get there we walked though a castle, passed a big fountain and passed a beach volleyball tornement. 

Sat in park and caught up on all the news for about 2 hours. 

Left Mateo and Irene at 3:30. Then went to buy me a belt for my shorts as they have been falling down all holiday. Bought belt and went to get some good pictures of the duomo in the sun. 

Wet a got dinner which included a shared pizza and a spritzer for bini and I had now crashed as was feeling very sick. Pizza cost 23 euro, which included 10 euro for the spritzer. 

Went home via the metro and slept.