[travel] Milan
May. 20th, 2009 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellI ended up spending a night in Milan due to a train schedule issue. Lonely Planet goes out of its way to take a dump on Milan as a tourist destination, but I found it quite interesting for the half-day I wandered around. It's a lively city with a good metro system, nice parks and museums, and an environmental consciousness that included hordes of Prius taxis and lots of bike rental stations. Milan was also much more multiracial than I expected – it was interesting to see Vietnamese couples chattering to one another in Italian. People walked around with poise but not the exagerrated swagger like I remember seeing in other parts of the country.
I was however disheartened to discover that the giant bug-eye sunglasses are still very popular there, which means they'll probably be popular in the San Francisco area until at least 2013. The fashions in general were not too shocking or different, though I noticed that a lot of women over 40 tended to have very artificial-looking blond hair and overdone raccoon eye makeup.
Amusingly, I was the only male guest out of 13 or so at the hostel. Guys aren't so interested (generally speaking) in hitting up major fashion centers.
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Unrelated:
A note to hostel owners out there. It is not a good idea to let guests use your personal computer to download porn. WinPC Defender does not defend your PC against anything except you.
I was however disheartened to discover that the giant bug-eye sunglasses are still very popular there, which means they'll probably be popular in the San Francisco area until at least 2013. The fashions in general were not too shocking or different, though I noticed that a lot of women over 40 tended to have very artificial-looking blond hair and overdone raccoon eye makeup.
Amusingly, I was the only male guest out of 13 or so at the hostel. Guys aren't so interested (generally speaking) in hitting up major fashion centers.
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Unrelated:
A note to hostel owners out there. It is not a good idea to let guests use your personal computer to download porn. WinPC Defender does not defend your PC against anything except you.
