Finishing Up Milan

Procrastinating in the LSE library again. I'm going to finish off Milan (I'll upload all of the pictures on facebook shortly). So me and Jamie were walking through a park past a soccer stadium and heard english on a loudspeaker so we went inside enticed by signs that said "free entry!" It turns out that we had stumbeled upon the 2009 Homeless World Cup! Most of the people I've told about this looked at me incredously or as if I was telling a bad joke so I have a picture here to prove it wasn't a lie! They had flown in homeless people from around the world to play friendly soccer matches, it was actually quite cool although attendance was low.



The public transportation system in Milan was actually quite good. But one thing to note were the ancient street car trolleys they used. In ones like this one we spotted an old looking sign still hanging in the front saying in Italian that the front seats were reserved for those mutilated or wounded in "the war". I'm guessing it meant WWII but from the apparent age, it could've been the Napoleanic wars...


There's a tradition in the grand central shopping gallery to put your heel on the balls of the Torino bull on the ground and spin in a circle. Jamie is demonstrating here. Look below to see the effect this tradition has had over the decades on the poor bull :(



On the gates of the cathedral people were lining up to have their picture taken rubbing or holding the leg of one of the engraved people. We assumed it was for good luck but since everyone who was doing it was a woman except me we wondered if maybe it was really for fertility or something?