Escaping daily life is not the worst choice to choose! Especially to Italy!

Tired of meetings, decisions, plans and the daily routine I headed for Milan! Unlikely I visited Milan with the extended family on holidays, but nethertheless I had four sunny days (30 Min of rain) strolling through this lovely place. Enlightened by the general style, love for details and especially espresso!!!

Cafés and food

• Cafezal – a speciality espresso bar with a passionate Carlos who’s roast is just perfect!
• orsonero – a speciality coffee shop run by a canadian-italian couple
• Osteria qui da noi – a real italian osteria (reservation obliged)
• La Triennale Di Milano – Espresso is Illy based (ok), service is perfect, try the Pasticcini
• moleskine café – an ideal location for spotting real italians in a rush (espresso is solid but not special)
• Prime One Seven – lovely burgers! 
• A café at Isola – where I ordered an espresso by shaking head / nodding.

The classics

• China Town – stroll around beside the mainroad
• La Triennale Di Milano – Design Museum. A special and quite place including the garden and the library in the basement. Espresso is Illy based, service is perfect!
• the marble middle finger of Milan – a twelfe meter high middle finger pointing to the financial district
• Panarello – if you need (en)lightment by italian lamp makers (especially Artemide
• Musei del Castello – the fortress of Milan
• Galleria Vittorio Emanuelle II – the milanese standard for shopping malls
• the dome
• the canals at Naviglio