The first few words you hear just when you get off the Ryanair plane is "Welcome to Milano". You take a bus because you find out that you really aren't in in Milan, but in the outskirts. It's a 45 minute ride and I slept through most of it. Heck, I slept in the plane, in the bus.. I even slept on the couch as soon as we got to our host's house. Fol and I are staying with a Malaysian family here in Milan, and they are such fantastic hosts. :-)

Fol and I with Rahim eating in the snow. lol

We visited the mountains on our first day, and I managed to put on a pair of skis (and get my bottom bruised up from all the falling). I didn't do any bobsledding with the rest of the kids, just took lots of photos of the view. I've posted most of it up on my flickr.

On our second day, we took a three hour ride to Venice. Unfortunately Fol and I didn't take any rides on the gondola, we said that if we ever took on another trip to Italy, we'd do just that. It's a shame though, I think riding the gondola might've been romantic or is that just another cliche I've made my mind to think? lol :-)

I've put down ice skating on my list of things to do while in Europe. Guess what I did yesterday?

Me, Aisha, Mira & Fol at the ice rink.

In this ten day holiday we've taken, I've done a number of things I've always wanted to do (sampai hajat lah tu..), like ice skating, skiing, playing in the snow. All these wonderful winter things that you can do during this time of year. Fantastic. :-D Originally we were only suppose to stay here until the 31st but Uncle and Aunty convince Fol's Uncle and Aunt to stay longer and we could only manage to find a ticket on the 5th. There weren't any earlier tickets.. so instead of a 3 nights, 4 days holiday.. it turned to 8 nights, 9 days.

Anyway, I'm off now. Will post once I get back to Loughborough.

xxxx