Milan, Italy. 11th September 2011. Another beautiful day in Milan. This morning started by having breakfast with Emanuele and Orazio before watching several episodes of "Spartacus". For lunch Emanuele and I visited my cousins Danielle, her husband Leo and their sin Timothy. A lovely lunch was enjoyed with home made lasagna, fillets of pork, potato chips and zucchini/egg slice. Followed by gelati. After lunch Emanuele took me to a river where we cooled off by ...

Milan, Italy. 10th September 2011. This morning Peter and Ben left for Croatia at 5.00am. I wolk up showered and had breakfast with Enanuele, leaving Orazio we went for a drive to Pieve to see a property that Emanuele is doing some Architectural work for. We returned back home for lunch and later in the afternoon I joined Emanuele at his gym for a workout. For dinner we joined a friend of the boys Angelica and we went for dinner to "Mong Kok". After dinner we we...

Milan, Italy. 9th September 2011 Peter and I enjoyed a sleep in before joining Orazio for breakfast with Sicilian Cassatta, coffee, pear juice and yogurt. Truly a carbohydrate fix! For lunch Peter and I caught the tram into Buenos Aires (Piazza Venezia) to catch up with my Zia Rosa for long lunch, after when you haven't seen someone for 22 years there is much to talk about, including acceptance of her Gay son Orazio. After saying ciao, Peter and I took a walk to...

Milan, Italy. 8th September 2011. After joining Emanuelle and Orazio for breakfast, Emanuelle dropped us off at the Duomo. Here we enjoy a coffee before Emanuelle leaves for work. Time to explore, first the Duomo, brilliant facade but compared to Siena's Duomo as far as the Art goes Siena's Duomo beats it hands down. Next we walked through Emanuele II Gallery with it's beautiful exclusive shops and then we see "La Scala", famous for it's world operas. After lu...

Milan, Italy. 7th September 2011. Buongiorno, our morning began with our last breakfast with the Netty, Dawn and Catrina, before bidding them goodbye. Peter and I make our way to catch taxi to then take the train to Milan. Peter and I purchased our tickets and caught the first train to Empoli, changed to a second train to change again in Florence. On arrival to Milan we walked out with all our luggage and got to a bar where we lunched. We return to the train stat...