DAY 8 In ITALY, VENICE
DAY 8 (1st December 2023) – Venice Main Island We booked the van for ease of transport and left Point Hotel at 8:00am. We had decided the night before that the best plan of attack was to go straight to the Marco Polo International Airport and leave our luggage there, and then work our way […]
DAY 6 & 7 In ITALY, PADOVA
DAY 6 and 7 (29th and 30th November 2023) – Padova (or Padua) Day 6 was spent almost entirely in meetings and factory visits with our hosts in Piove di Sacco, a suburb of Padova. Then food, then meetings again and then food again. Hardly any adventure on Day 6! Just some photos to show […]
DAY 5 In ITALY, BERGAMO
DAY 5 (28th November 2023) Piove di Sacco, via Bergamo, via Padova (some spell it as Padua) Our hosts had booked rooms for us at the Point Hotel in a small town named Piove di Sacco just outside of Padova city, and the next few nights, we will call this “home”. Having checked that we […]
DAY 4 In ITALY, MILAN
DAY 4 (27th November 2023) – Lake Como via Lecco Ever since I was introduced to Brahim’s ready-to-eat-meals on one of my camping trips, having packs of these are essential for my travels! If only to remind myself what home food tastes like! Anyway, the preparation is as simple as it gets, since most hotels, […]
DAY 3 In ITALY, MILAN
DAY 3 (26th November 2023) – Rataná Restaurant and Duomo di Milan The original plans for Day 3 were a little different from what transpired, but as adventurers, we sorta have to expect changes at the last moments. We did have one fixed certainty, which was to have lunch at the high-end Rataná Restaurant. You […]
DAY 2 In ITALY, MILAN
DAY 2 (25th November 2023) Central Milan Walkabout and A Cold Night in San Siro Stadium Whatever jetlag that was remaining in our bones had all but evaporated by the morning of the second day in Milan. While PN and I enjoyed our “home-cooked” breakfast (read: pre-packed food brought from home), RS went out to […]
DAY 1 In ITALY, MILAN
DAY 1 (24th November 2023) Southwestern Milan Walkabout including Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” The three of us – RS(BR:@danrodgers), PN(BR:@ Primela) and me – left Kuala Lumpur International Airport on 23rd November 2023 for an overnight flight to Milan via Doha. After a two-hour layover, we continued our flight bound for Milan. Boarding […]
