They said it couldn't be done. They said I was mad to even think about it, let alone attempt such a feat. But I've done it. (Well assuming this actually works of course - I may end up being encased in an oversized humble pie and baked for all eternity should I fail to pull this off...)
This is the aforementioned largest Gothic cathedral in the whole wide world. Known to the locals as il Duomo, it is the third largest Roman Catholic church in the world, not quite surpassing St Peter's in Rome and the leviathon in Seville.
And this...
is, and I quote from the Rough Guide, 'the gaudily opulent Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' which is now a big gallery full of shops and cafes. But it used to be a big gallery full of not much which served as a walkway to La Scala. It was built by some chap in the 1800s and tragically he fell to his death from the roof a few days before the opening ceremony. Who knows what he was doing up there - surely it was finished by that time and where was the Health & Safety red tape preventing such an untimely death? Ah yes it was in Italy...I understand now.
This is another picture of said gallery. It's opulent and possibly even a bit gaudy too. I have more pictures of it but I'm sure I've talked about it too much by now already.
Well that's enough technology (and culture) for me for the time being. I need a lie down before a day's beer drinking at the Beer Festival, or perhaps la festa delle birre, whatever suits.
All very nice but I'm still waiting for my beer samples to arrive.
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