Milan Part 4

crazy tile work at Casa di Riposo per Musicisti

we drove to Bergamo in North Eastern Italy.

Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Yoon's fav church in italy

next we went for a Franciacorta tour and tasting at Bellavista. Franciacorta is italian sparkling wine from the Lombardy region (which includes Lake Como, Bergamo, and Milan). It's expensive! I think it's like champagne but they can't call it that cuz it ain't from champagne and i could be stabbed for calling it champagne anyway.

of course its tasting time. An expensive tasting time. Franciacorta is expensive stuff

next onto more Northern Italian lake life at a smaller lake, Lago D'Iseo. We rented paddle boards and there were lots of young people doin' various lake stuff

Osteria Pane al Sale for lake front dinner

when the moon hits your eye.... your phone camera will splice in a crazy photo of the moon that's not real. Jen said this happened and i'd like a screenshot for proof.

ashtrys at the airport train. Ok so Milan is cool but it's another European city. It's great that I know illustrators to hang out with there but...Italian lake life, that's where it's at! I was surprised that this was what really tickled me. But cruising on a boat in the sunshine drinking prosecco or swimming in the warm late august water was amazing. The pace of life and the enjoyment for life in italy is always refreshing and melancholic. To be fair to Milan it was the off season and probably the second worst week to be there, the first being the next week when all of italy takes a month off for a national holiday. So the city was empty and many of the illustrators I knew were gone. But I still got Serena and Frederica and Francesca and met several others. Hopefully we'll be back next summer after Yoon's duties are done before he leaves Milan. Thank you yoon for handling so much travel and planning stuff.

Umbrian-Marche Apennines

yoon's mom stayed in Milan for a while and made a bunch of chuch friends, one of whom owns this korean photo booth room business in Milan.

Moana espresso back at home that Yoon got me. Delish. In Italy they can't call the Disney movie Moana that name because there's an italian pornstar called Moana. It's called Oceania in Italy