24 hours Milan

Work brought me one more time to Italy. Milan. Arrival on 20/8/07 at Malpensa airport flying in from Amsterdam.

Weather: purely crap

First encounter at the airport: Mr. Fabio Cappello (Football trainer)

First thing done: Picked up Avis car

Drove all the way down to Milan (roughly 50 km.) looking for the hotel. Nice minimalistic. Have a look at www.watttredicihotel.it

At 22h30 I managed to get a table at "Al pont de ferr" a nice restaurant in the glamorous Navigli area (see cheese plateau). From there back to the hotel, felt asleep singing "...sognami se nevica, sognami sono nuvola....".

The day after early wake up call to prepare the upcoming meeting. End of fun.

Summer holiday 2007...

....not really according to expectations.



After 3 days in Italy we are told that Isabella has chicken pox.......holy........this means roughly one week out of the sun and a couple of sleepless nights. We were meant to go to Sardinia by boat but Isabella's condition did not allow it, so we had to cancel the trip. This translates in: doctor visits, insurance phone calls, travel agency etc. etc.

What now? Two weeks after finding out the pox the family drove to St. Tropez (France). We spent a very nice week over there among the luxury boats and fast cars. Then we went back to Genoa to celebrate Bella's birthday at the "Castagnina".
On Sunday 29th after having left Jamie behind in Italy with Granpa & Granma, we drive back home...........we are supposed to drive back home.......because after about 180 km. the car breaks down and after three attempts of the Swiss car help we end up in a hotel in Vezia waiting for the morning after. On Monday the car is fixed (a broken sensor) and we finally reach The Netherlands in the night.