Milan
Thursday 15th October 2015
From the sleepy backwater of Mantova, I got the train to the flashy metropolis of Milan. Lorenzo happened to be working there in the daytime, so we met when he'd finished and went on a brief tour of the city's cocktail bars. Starting at the Camparino, then on to Bar Basso.
Italy October 2015
John's Pictures

10:14:37
My hotel room in Mantova just before I checked out in the morning.

10:24:59
Passed Bar Caravatti on the way to the station, and took a couple more shots outside.

10:25:07

12:45:50
Milano Centrale station.

12:48:42
Outside Milano Centrale.

13:44:09
My room at the Principe di Savoia hotel. I rather liked it here.

13:46:06
Was struggling to take a picture of the bathroom, which was also rather nice, so ended up just taking a picture of myself in the mirror.

14:57:49
The duomo.

14:58:50
The window of the Camparino.

14:59:06
Selection of Campari products.

14:59:23
3 litre bottle of Campari anyone?

15:08:50
Pied de poule (what we'd call houndstooth / puppytooth) seemed to be on display in a lot of tailors windows in Italy I noticed. I'd assumed I'd come to Milan in my puppytooth tweed looking like an English eccentric, was there a danger I was actually in fashion?

15:43:15
The castle in Milan.

15:52:54
The church opposite where Lorenzo was working.

16:23:00
Now in the Camparino, as if the Campari branding doesn't give it away.

16:27:12
Lorenzo in the Camparino.

17:22:58
Now in Bar basso - the famous Negroni Sbagliato.

17:47:19
Me and my second drink (a regular Negroni) in their iconic giant glass goblets.

17:47:22

17:47:25

20:00:23
In the bar in the station waiting for Lorenzo's train.

20:00:25

20:49:51
I rounded off the evening after Lorenzo had got the train back to Florence with this experimental Negroni in an experimental cocktail bar called Nottingham Forest.

22:24:03
On the way back to my hotel I imagined I felt hungry, and ate this awful greasy pizza.

22:48:02
Finally back at my hotel room, which hd a rather impressive door.