Arrival in Milan

We arrived in Milan at 4:50pm. Angie and Steve were already waiting for us at the Airport along with another group member who had arrived a bit earlier.

We got our first taste of Italian drivers on the way to the hotel. We were not disappointed! Steve and Angie had rented a van for the duration of the trip so that they could shuttle us back and forth to the airport. Angie drove while Steve navigated. It was the middle of rush hour, and traffic was worse than I've ever seen it in Seattle! Traffic signals, signs, crosswalks, and those lines in the road that form lanes are purely a suggestion in Italy. It was quite an adventure!

Our hotel was on the corner of a one-way street, and by the time we were approaching we were all pretty exhausted and ready to get out of the van and into our rooms, so we did what any good local Italian would do, and turned the wrong way onto the one way street and promptly drove the van up onto the sidewalk and parked it. Wish we had taken a picture - the entire proceeding was quite amusing :-)

A few pictures of our arrival in Milan

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