27 December 2016

School holidays end of 2016


<<==(Jelena, Anna Maria, and Marie at their place)

We're off for the summer school holidays to visit family friends in France and other places. The queue for the plane is huge. Luckily Marie checked with the attendants and we can go ahead of everyone. The plane is huge (A380) double decker, with good leg room. Boys are straight onto the console and the games - no help needed from us. Heaps of movies and TV, but they're old or boring. Categories are Hollywood, Bollywood, or World movies. Fall asleep watching a Silk Road doco and wake up for dinner. Slumdog Millionaire was very good. The kids went to sleep around midnight Sydney time, and awake again at 5am. Lucky they are troopers, and the stopover at Doha is no probs with smartphone games.

(Danilo, Ted)==>>








<<==(Jelena, Ollie, Louis, Anna Marie, Marie)

The next flight goes quickly. It is great and weird to see Danilo again, to pick us up. Once we arrive to see Jelena, Jossipa and Ana Maria, it's like we never left. I can't understand anything. We sit at home munching away, then go to Agri Brianza to get Christmas stuff. In the afternoon, we walk around Sulbiate a bit to top up credit on a phone, then play mini soccer in the cafe. All are sleep at around 6.30pm local time, and are up at 6am, feeling great.





(Catching the train into the city centre)==>>


Day 2 is hanging out at home, a trip to the local shopping centre (Globo Centro Comerciale), back at home. At 6pm we're on the train into Milan central. Our appartment is on Corso Como, a pedestrian mall, just beautiful - Christmas lights, cafes, people wandering around.





<<==(Near the Port Garibaldi train station in the Corso Como - we stayed at No.6, a brillianr little appartment behind a gate as wide as a car, with a door cut in, down the tunnel, past the restaurant, and above some little residential forum area.)





Day 3 - Everyone is awake around 4am today for the 6am fast train. People have been partying in the corso all night long, and walking through, there are drunk people singing and girls with short skirts and nothing but a beer coat on their legs in the sub zero temperatures.

We love the French TGV train with 4 facing seats, a table and a power point - drawing, tic tac toe, finger twister and devices make it too easy.

The car hire place is just across the street from the train station.

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