I wish I'd gotten a shot of this from the ground level up. An arch, between two buildings, with an outdoor bridge across the top? The architecture of the two buildings looks extremely similar, so maybe the connection was planned from the beginning? They don't look like they are connected in the back, from this angle, but maybe they are and the connection is lower than this shot................ A puzzle.
A closer look at the plants. They had some of this plant, whose new leaves are red, at agritourismo Fattoria l'Alpenice.
Decorated bicycle.
I was heading happily straight downtown (it's a pretty straight shot from the train station).
Until I was distracted by this nice big park. And then everything went south. Except me -- I was supposed to continue heading south. But didn't.
You'll have noticed that it was completely overcast on the morning of the 16th.....
I walked the wrong way, beginning shortly after this, for a long time. Most of a mile, I think. (On a different street, not the one I had walked down on.)
I had no idea I was going the wrong way, of course, so I happily walked along, snapping pics.
(At least) three seriously different ages of architecture. Pretty darn old, at least in that red rectangle on the stripey archy part, which is, I bet, also older than the yellow building at left, which is older than the blue one at right.......... (Wondering what that stripey thing is.....)
Here's a closer look at the red rectangle....
Oh my. Grapevines. And stuff.
There's plenty of green stuff along the streets in Milan (in my experience), and it looks like there's even more in the middle of the blocks.....
The tulips.................. Nice.
Poppy, with the tulips.
Fancy shop. Love the decor, especially the dodo.
Closer crop of upper right of above.
Florist, working on the street (by stairs down into a metro station?).
Somewhere along here I realized that I couldn't be going the right way. I found street names on the map that I couldn't find on the buildings (where they keep the street signs), and vice versa.
Sigh, and argh! The tourist map had all of the streets labeled, but some of the names were too small for me to read.
I was really wishing I'd gotten my daughter to tell me how to make the iPod/Phone do its magic you-are-here blue dot on a map on its screen.................. (And/or that I had reading glasses with me!)
(Did I ask anyone where the cathedral was? I did not. Why not? I have no idea. I don't think I can have been functioning very well that day. I do NOT get lost. IPod or no iPod.....)
Old in the pic above, new below. Lacy-looking building.........
Love the copper trim on this one. That verdigris with the gray......... So nice.
Another park? The same park we saw before?
Another leafy middle-of-the-block.
At some point, the sun came out enough that I could see it through the clouds. "OH. THAT way is south!!!!!" Then I was able to orient myself, and find some landmarks on the map (it was the extra-helpful kind with the drawings of some of the buildings on it), and get down to where the cathedral is. But jeez. Wandering in circles is not how I want to spend time and energy.........
I mean -- I don't mind it if I know basically where I am, and I'm wandering for fun. But when I have a destination in mind, I don't want to be tired before I get there..............
There is a 34-minute gap between the time I took the pic above and the time I took the next pic on the 16th. That's a lot of walking, to recover from the error of turning the wrong way.......
In order to facilitate chronological traversal of these posts, here is a link to the next post.
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