Adeline en Charl raak betrokke by 'n betoging...

Wow, it was just like the sixties! On our very first day in Milan we got caught up in a protest march, complete with red communist flags and slogan shouting union leaders! We're not sure what the protest was about, but it was fun anyway. The riot police was even present, but they looked decidedly bored and uninterested.

Then it was on for a stroll through the decidedly capitalist Corso Vittorio Emanuel II, a mall to top all malls, and the only mall where MacDonalds is gold in colour not red, and located across the corridor from Prada and Louis Vuitton. So Adeline went and bought four pairs of.... oh well, no, so just posed in front of the entrance to Prada for a photo. With the Euro at R12, that's about as much as we could afford.

Modieus is die tweede naam van elke Milanees. en stove pipe jeans, groot donkerbrille en helderkleurige kouse met kort rokkies is in, wat beteken dis die mode in SA vir Julie volgende jaar. Julle het dit eerste hier gelees!

So ons twee in T-shirts en jeans voel baie uit. Ons lyk en voel soos toeriste. Selfs die bedelaars lyk opgedress.

En wag ons die sonsondergang in op die 'lovers grasperk van Parco Sempione, nadat ons vroeer die Castello Sforzesco museum kafgedraf het. Ons is omring deur omtrent vyfig paartjies, almal in verskillende omhelsings wat ons so bietjie mff mff mmmmm....