Mama Mia

St. Marc's Square, Venice

I love Italy… the food, the shopping and the people watching. My favourite would have to be Florence because of its historical sights followed by Venice because it is such a romantic city. With graffiti-covered walls, second-rate sights and a dodgy public transport system after 9pm, Milan probably isn’t a city you’d typically associate with glamour and probably the least aesthetically pleasing of the Italian cities I have visited so far.

Love is in the air ~ There were these cute exhibitions of the word "Love" in different languages scattered around the Duomo in Milan. A much better sight compared to graffiti I say!

If you think that over-priced gelatos plus a seat facing the street with a sea of tourists walking by is your thing, then the streets surrounding the famous Piazza Duomo might be the perfect destination for you. And if you’d like to be sipping drinks twice the intensity of those in Australia and Alicia Keys just a glance away, the Just Cavalli Café would have to be your next stop. Milan is filled with good looking people, with the men pulling off ankle length pants in any colour (which my aunty calls “old man kopitiam pants”) and women in outfits straight off the runway strutting their stuff in the highest heels on cobbled streets.

Alicia Keys
A cheeky snap on my camera by Mr. KVC as the songstress was leaving the VIP area of the Just Cavalli Cafe. Might I add, from where we were standing, she appeared to be quite the average young lady; dancing, chatting and even taking photos for her friends.

But the most exciting celebrity sighting was of Rihanna walking along Via Montenapoleone. I was so consumed with her outfit that I didn’t even realize who I was walking past until a small Italian man with female antics in front of me turned around and whispered her name. Dressed in a yellow cotton dress, a ton of bangles and wedges…

Rihanna shopping in Milan

I probably would have kept on walking thinking "oh, what a stylish young girl". Unfortunately when I realized it was the beautiful voice behind “Umbrella”, I also noticed she had quite a massive bodyguard a step behind and I was too polite to forcefully take a snap *sigh*…