After reading for a few hours, we had lunch at Bar Il Molo. It was recommended by the Americans we met yesterday. Specifically they enjoyed the avocado with shrimp - it was tasty, but we think they were more excited it was an avocado, because they're from California. I had a salad with tomatoes and eggplant while Amanda enjoyed a pasta.
Once lunch was over, we checked the train schedule and decided to take the train leaving in 25 minutes. So we picked up our luggage from our hotel and clickety clack, dragged our luggage across town to the train station. We caught the train that took about 50 minutes to get back to Milan. We were at the Milano Centrale train station for our fourth time. We walked a few blocks to the Hilton. I actually do not like staying in American hotels overseas as they cost too much, but ironically enough with the Expo, this was the most reasonable hotel that met our needs.
We checked in and conveniently enough were upgraded to an Executive Room (for the win) and researched our last dinner in Italy. While listening to BBC, we decided on La Latteria San Marco. We took the metro 3 stops to Moscova and after walking in the wrong direction for a bit, finally found our restaurant.
It was a cash only 7 table restaurant that changes the menu daily. It was fantastic and fresh. Amanda had fusilli pasta with tomato and cheese and I had a lemon and spicy pepper pasta. Afterwards, Amanda had stuffed artichokes and I had calamari. All of it was seasoned so well - a collage of our final meal below:
After dinner, we decided to have one last gelato. I sprung for 2 scoops - hazelnut and chocolate while Amanda had pistachio - a perfect way to end our last full day in Italy.
On our walk back to the metro, we were also again surrounded by cottonwood seeds that seemed to fill the spring air. They were indeed flying everywhere at the Expo and managed to even fly into our restaurant and into the subway. I think they follow us, because they don't want us to leave!
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