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Offline ColDayMan

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« on: November 25, 2007, 08:55:12 AM »
2007 ColDay Series:

Part 1: Los Angeles Parte Uno
Part 2: Los Angeles Parte Dos 
Part 3: Boston 
Part 4: A New York City Interlude 
Part 5: Montreal 
Part 6: Cincinnati 
Part 7: Pittsburgh & Harrisburg 
Part 8: Philadelphia 
Part 9: Brooklyn, New York 
Part 10: Atlantic City, Baltimore, & Washington DC 
Part 11: Dayton
Part 12: Sacramento to Santa Cruz
Part 13: Big Sur to San Francisco
Part 14: San Francisco
Part 15: Berkeley & Oakland
Part 16: Around The Globe Preview
Part 17: London I
Part 18: London II
Part 19: Paris Partie Une
Part 20: Paris Partie Deux
Part 21: Paris Partie Trois
Part 22: Nashville & Pittsburgh
Part 23: Gritcinnati
Part 24: Toronto
Part 25: Akron & Cleveland
Part 26: New York City: Part One
Part 27: New York City: Part Two
Part 28: New York City: Part Three
Part 29: Hartford
Part 30: Zürich
Part 31: Lucerne & The Swiss Alps
Part 32: Milan
Part 33: Dallas
Part 34: Detroit
Part 35: Gary
Part 36: Chicago


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Goodbye, from Milan

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Re: Milan
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2007, 09:51:26 AM »
Outstanding!
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Re: Milan
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2007, 11:16:27 AM »
wonderful!
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Re: Milan
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2007, 04:01:48 PM »
To be honest, when I was in Milan a few years back I was thoroughly unimpressed.  Maybe I just didn't find the right parts, or maybe it was travel fatigue on my part.  Your pictures here are making me reevaluate my image of the city.  It looks wonderful.
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Re: Milan
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2007, 04:02:07 PM »
Where's the surface lot with all the inflatables, streamers, and what not?!!?
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Re: Milan
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2007, 05:49:18 PM »
^ Yeah, after seeing that I thought.  Damn, are we tacky

Awesome photos Chris
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Re: Milan
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2007, 12:11:18 AM »
Thanks funny, I just got back from here last night (I was staying up in an apartment on the shores of Lake Como). On the face of it this is a very attractive city. The cathedral in the central part is the best I have seen with amazing detailing. Some might say its overdecorated but the amount of statues on the flying buttresses and the tower is staggering. The area around the cathedral is very impressive, with baroque façades and triumphal arch motifs a plenty. I didn't see much medieval stuff which leads me to suspect that it was all pulled down and replaced with Parisian style boulevards around the time of Baron Hausmann The main station was also impressive, looks like it was built in the 1930s and it has some great art deco features. You can also see in the photos that the old trams are still running.

Great city to go walk around it, having said that I wouldn't want to live there!. The suburbs are ghastly, and the commie block salesman obviously had a great run of business. The central part is amazing architecturally but a tad run down, dirty and chaotic and beyond the baroque part it starts to look very sketchy. I was also accosted by bands of immigrants who hang round in the central square trying to extort money from tourists. Get in, see the Duomo the castle and the baroque centre, then get out as fast as you can. The other thing is, make sure you don't have to go to the loo while you are there. The Italians may have mastered art, architecture and wine making but when it comes to toilets, a hole in the ground is the height of their engineering prowess.     
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Re: Milan
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2007, 12:31:55 AM »
Quote from: Humphrey on November 26, 2007, 12:11:18 AM
Great city to go walk around it, having said that I wouldn't want to live there!. The suburbs are ghastly, and the commie block salesman obviously had a great run of business. The central part is amazing architecturally but a tad run down, dirty and chaotic and beyond the baroque part it starts to look very sketchy. I was also accosted by bands of immigrants who hang round in the central square trying to extort money from tourists. Get in, see the Duomo the castle and the baroque centre, then get out as fast as you can.  The other thing is, make sure you don't have to go to the loo while you are there. The Italians may have mastered art, architecture and wine making but when it comes to toilets, a hole in the ground is the height of their engineering prowess.

If you hadn't used the words "loo", "ghastly" and "prowess", I'd have thought from this statement that you were living in suburban Cincinnati and not London.
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Re: Milan
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2007, 01:42:23 AM »
Quote from: LincolnKennedy on November 26, 2007, 12:31:55 AM
Quote from: Humphrey on November 26, 2007, 12:11:18 AM
Great city to go walk around it, having said that I wouldn't want to live there!. The suburbs are ghastly, and the commie block salesman obviously had a great run of business. The central part is amazing architecturally but a tad run down, dirty and chaotic and beyond the baroque part it starts to look very sketchy. I was also accosted by bands of immigrants who hang round in the central square trying to extort money from tourists. Get in, see the Duomo the castle and the baroque centre, then get out as fast as you can.  The other thing is, make sure you don't have to go to the loo while you are there. The Italians may have mastered art, architecture and wine making but when it comes to toilets, a hole in the ground is the height of their engineering prowess.

If you hadn't used the words "loo", "ghastly" and "prowess", I'd have thought from this statement that you were living in suburban Cincinnati and not London.


Lol. Don't get me wrong, I live in an inner suburb of London which is quite gritty and is only a few neighbourhoods along from Camden and Kings Cross which is grit central, so I would consider myself an urbanite.

Rightly or wrongly, my impression of the city was that outside the confines of the baroque centre the majority of neighbourhoods are quite ugly but also fairly homogeneous. In fairness, the same is true of a lot of European cities.  Vast estates of concrete tower blocks, characterless suburban sprawl and large areas of low rise industrial estates. The countryside there is as flat as a pancake which doesn't help. Of course, I may just have been in a bad mood.   
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Re: Milan
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2007, 05:12:37 AM »
Damn Milan looks gorgeous.  Outstanding photos too!
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Re: Milan
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2007, 09:52:13 AM »
well in that case thank goodness cdm found all the interesting cool-azz parts of town.  this thread makes me want to get a plane ticket right now.

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Re: Milan
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2007, 10:21:59 AM »
I think we have US and British bombs for the way much of the city looks today.  It ain't so pretty, but sure is cool.
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Re: Milan
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2007, 06:09:36 PM »
I think I enjoyed the Zurich thread a lot more, but this one was pretty nice.

Good Lord, what a fantastic street wall:
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Re: Milan
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2007, 02:29:57 AM »
CDM's Euro-Invasion Tour 2007 continues.  I'd say "nice photos", but that goes without saying at this point.
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