Yesterday we made our final hike to the Firenze train station, bid farewell to the city that had been a perfect home to us for the past month and arrived safely in Milan. Our hotel in Milan was close to the station, so we wasted no time in depositing our bags and nipped down to the Duomo here, another cathedral with spires and pinnacles soaring into the heavens, and only a mere 2.5 kilometres away. This cathedral took almost six centuries to complete and always r...

Any flight from Australia to Italy is long, but Cathay Pacific provided a comfortable enough trip with plenty of movies to fill those long 21 hours in the air. A 5 hour transit at Hong Kong Airport gave a chance to stretch our legs and even stretch out flat to nap for a while. And then we landed in Milan on a crisp clear -6 degree morning with a beautiful fireball sun that rose in the sky and shone on the snow dusted ground. There is nothing more beautiful than a...