Top 5 tops

Hey hey!

As you've probably figured out by now I've travelled quite a lot in my life and I have lots of pictures to show you. So my plan is to do a series of "Top 5" posts with highlights from my previous travels.

Let's start out with a fun one: Top 5 tops! Or in other words the top 5 high places I've been to.

Top 1. A mountain top in the Swiss Alps

Did you know I climbed a mountain? A whopping 2548 metres above sea level! That's right, I'm tougher than I look. I sometimes have to remind my humans when they're being annoying.
Also, what's up with the Swiss? I know they're a very efficient people, but having signs telling you how many sexually transmitted diseases (STD) you can get in 30 minutes seems like overdoing it a bit, don't you think?

Me in the snow on the way to the top. Brrr.

Top 2. The roof of Duomo in Milan.

This picture isn't from our recent trip to Italy. It was taken back in the good old days before I started travelling with Julius.

Ooh, that looks like a nice gelato place down there.

Top 3. The Eiffel tower (you can't do list of tops without that)

Haha, I'm kidding of course. That's just a model of the Eiffel Tower, I'm not King Kong — though sometimes I wish I were... Here's a picture I took of the real thing:

And here's one with me in it. Look how tiny and insignificant I am. You probably can't even find me in the picture.

Top 4. Catedral de Santa María La Real de La Almudena in Madrid. (Yeah I know, the Spanish have a way with names...)

This is the cathedral next to the Royal Palace in Madrid. There's a wonderful view of the city from the roof.

If you look to the west you can see the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains in the background.

Top 5. Ljubljana Castle.

You do know that Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia, right? Just checking. It's located in the foothills of the Alps in the centre of Slovenia which is itself sandwiched between Austria and Croatia. But you already knew that, right? 

Because of the location you have a beautiful view of the mountains.

Bonus Top! The top of the Asinelli tower in Bologna. If you haven't done so already you have to read my post about Bologna to see the pictures from the tower.


That's all for today, folks!

Milan

From Riga we went to Milan. The airport shuttle bus was full of loud Italian musicians who obviously came from the celebrations in Riga. Because my knowledge of Italian is still very limited I only understood a few words like "rigoletto" and "forte". Nobody sad anything about where to get the best gelato so I had to figure it out myself.

When we got to the city my humans went straight to the nearest pizzeria close to the Central Station or Centrale.

Then we went to check in at our hotel Vienna. It was rather old but clean. But I didn't like it because of the cleaning lady who made lots of loud annoying noises all the time.

Here are a few things that I liked about Milan:

1. travelling on the antique trams

A tram from 1928

Me on the tram

2. the beautiful cathedral or il Duomo

Me in front of Duomo

3. strolling along Via Garibaldi & stopping by a café to enjoy an espresso and a gelato or two. Me and Giulio aka Julius had a competition to see who could eat the most gelato. I don't need to tell you that I won of course...

4. Navigli-area with its canals and cafés

5. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II where I accidentaly spent all my money on Versace. It was ridiculously expensive but shiny things has always been my guilty pleasure...

Shopping

We also went to Palazzo Reale to see an exhibition ”Impressionismo e avanguardie” My humans liked it a lot but not me, since there was nothing to eat...

Palazzo Reale

Behind Palazzo Reale we found a small secret garden with sculptures that I could climb on.

This wasn't my first visit to Milan but it was nice to see the city again.

In the next post I'll tell you about our day-trip to Bergamo.

Ciao!