Europe 2016 Sept 12th Day 15 Milan

A leisurely start this morning with a healthy breakfast in our room of granola and yogurt with juice for those that think I have nothing other than bacon and eggs. It was then a short walk back to Central Station where we could purchase tickets for the HOHO City Tour bus. Good idea today, not only to get the bearings of this city but also it's going to be 33° and its warm already.
Milan seems a bustling, vibrant City with heaps of history just riding around on the bus, going through the number of ancient city Gates and marveling at the the numerous churches, cathedrals, Arches  and just old beautiful buildings. After a short coffee and pastry stop we changed from the red Line to the blue line bus (including watching the vultures run to get first in line) which took us past the San Siro stadium ( AC and Inter Milan home ground, 85k seated capacity ) and the race course before heading back to the centre of the city and getting off near the Duomo.
A walk past Desigual, obviously necessitated a stop, along with the customary purchase of something before a refreshing cone of gelatti to assist in the heat.
This Cathedral (Duomo) was magnificent and though different, I thought comparable to Gaudi's La Segrada familia in Barcelona. Extremely ornate both inside and out, but these places still amaze me how they were constructed, especially when you go inside and look at all the columns, Arches and domes. Breathtaking. We caught the lift to the terrace which had a wonderful view of the city before I walked the rest of the steps up to the roof top, and I mean roof as you are actually just walking on the massive Cathedral roof. Amazing. Took some time to just look around before heading down and meeting Jane for a walk through the impressive Galleria Vittorio Emanuele ii; likewise an impressive structure but full of high end shopping, which luckily we did not entertain.
We then walked past the Museo of art and noticed there was an Escher exhibition on which we noted for tomorrow. However after a while walking we found a lovely little bakery "California Bakery" where we had baguettes and cold drinks; possibly wine ;-) for lunch and a leg rest.
It was then off to find the Roman ruins of a roman Ampitheatre which we just could not get too ( late that night on Google Earth saw it was fenced off and we we looking at it but it was below ground level) before wandering around the streets just admiring this amazing city.
Finally jumped on to the last HOHO bus for the day for another route of the city before heading back to the hotel. We stopped at a supermarket and just grabbed fruit, cheese, bread, salami, beer and vino to have in our room whilst resting some very tired and hot feet and bodies.
It was a long and late day, but utterly enjoyable, think I'm liking Milan.;-)