Travel With Me // Milan in Two Days, Milan, Italy

For our final country on our extended backpacking trip, we picked Italy, a destination that has been at the top of my dream travel list for many years. When we left the US a couple months earlier, we actually didn’t know if we would be able to make it to Italy. We decided to play it by ear and see how the budget and our energy levels were. Well, we ended up being able to tack on this last country, and we were so glad that we did! Some of our best memories from the trip happened in Italy.

We started just across the Swiss-Italian border in the Lombardy region. Our first city was Milan! Milan is a key player in the world of fashion and design, but it is also home to amazing architecture, culture, and history. We had about two days in this city, and we packed in the activities and the Italian food!

{Side Note – You may or may not have noticed that I’ve started putting maps I’ve created at the bottom of my travel posts to show our stops during our stay. I’m hoping this can be useful to someone planning a trip. You can download the map or even just look at it to get a sense for where the places I mention are located.} ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).