After Hours in Milan

We flew RyanAir to Bergamo on Friday night. RyanAir is kind of like the Southwest Airlines of Europe, but with less frills. It's not the most pleasant flying experience, but they get you there on time generally, and it's incredibly cheap. One way they are able to offer such cheap fares is that they fly into smaller airports outside of major cities. In this case, Bergamo is an hour from Milan. We arrived there around 9 and took the shuttle into Milan. It was past 10:30 when we finally arrived at our hotel in Milan.

The hotel was a little outside the city center, but not too bad. The NHow hotel was modern and artsy. We walked over to the Navigli area and ate pizza at Premiata Pizzeria, which was recommended by several travel sites. The pizza was very good, though at 11:15, having not eaten since lunch, anything would have been good.

Neither of us had ever been to Milan, so even though it was late, we walked to the center to check it out. It seemed like a nice enough city, not not one to which we need to rush back.

We finished the night off with some tasty gelato and headed back to the hotel to rest up for the journey to the Cinque Terre in the morning.