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  • Inside Milan Duomo

    The most important thing we noted here is that despite dome being part of the name this cathedral has no dome.

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    It has impressive arches.

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    Oh and here’s another piece of the cross. I think we may have seen enough to make a full cross by now. The tricky part is that so many seem to be different types of wood.

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    It is a very tall building.

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    This is a very elaborate carving of a guy with no skin. Because, art?

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    There are so many panels of stained glass, well technically painted glass.

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    I think this is Mary floating off to heaven.

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    This is closer to traditional stained glass and only has a bit of highlights on it.

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    This is not a statue or art pieces, but rather equipment used for restorations. Like many buildings in Italy they are working on them.

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    That dot is a hole in the building. You may wonder why they would put a hole in the roof.

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    It is for the monthly calendar of course. At noon the spot will be somewhere on the floor or wall and that corresponds to the zodiac. I didn’t realize they used the zodiac but I suppose it is pretty close to our months anyways. We couldn’t find the line until it was too late so the dot was nowhere near where it was supposed to be.

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  • Milan Shopping Spree

    Shopping is listed in all the guidebooks as the major activity for Milan, and we needed some things, so we went to their famous mall.

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    It looks very fancy inside.image

    Though it doesn’t look so nice from the roof of the Cathedral across the street.

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    One item in this window is worth over $4000 Canadian. We’re not sure which.

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    I’m guessing it is the skirt that looks similar to this $8042 jacket.

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    If you think that’s more like a price for a car than for a jacket, they were selling those in the mall too.

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    But they didn’t even have price tags on those. I assume you get a discount for it coming pre-sponsored by Shell.

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    There was one store where we could afford to shop, and they did not have what we needed.

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    We did manage to find some high fashion at a different mall though.

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    Bright colours are in, or were in whenever these weren’t the cheapest pants in the store.

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    You always want to make sure you’re staying on top of the retro fashions.

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    Kerri will be sporting a women’s version of the snowpants, without the classy suspenders.

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    Once she adjusts her hair you’ll see it’s the same Unisex pair of ski goggles and gloves. That’s what you get with a budget of $25 for the set.

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    And our high fashion shopping spree was complete!

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  • Milan Castle

    There’s a castle in Milan. It is pretty impressive at night.

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    It looks cool during the day too but not as dramatic.

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    We just walked through the courtyard and around the outside so we’ll never know if it was Kerri’s favourite castle.

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