Sean Lennon Day 10, Milan, ITA

So there's one important detail that none of the websites or tour books or hotel staff tell you about Milan. IT'S CLOSED ON SUNDAYS!!!

We finally have a full day off, no travel, nothing at all, and the city is shut down. Not a cafe, restaurant, store, zlich. Nada. Zip. Nil. However you want to say it. We walked for 7 hours looking for anything. There were maybe a handful of shops open right in the downtown core, but that was about it.

We finally found a little restaurant near the hotel though, something had to give, and it was right in time for happy hour.

See, happy hour here doesn't mean 50% off wings or nachos or some equally crappy appetizer. Happy hour in Milan (at pretty much every restaurant/cafe/pub) means you buy a drink and you eat for free. And it's good stuff too, real food, so this was a major accomplishment.

After happy hour, we stopped by the hotel, and around 9pm we went out again hoping to find some dinner. At 10:45pm we found a restaurant clear on the other side of town (convenient) that was open til 2am. Not being able to be picky, we settled in for an ok meal and headed "home". If nothing else, at least we got some exercise today and saw lots of the city...