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MILANO REDUX

To celebrate our 40 th wedding anniversary on October 1 st , my husband and I booked a long weekend in Milan.   We first got to know the city in 1984, when we taught English there as a second language.   Needless to say, Milan has changed a great deal in 39 years, but it’s still as magical as I remember it.   To plan our itinerary, we used two articles from the New York Times 36 Hours series; here are the links:   from 2019 and from 2022 , and I’ll use that format for this post. THURSDAY EVENING We arrived at Stazione Centrale at about 7:30 pm and took the Metro to our Airbnb apartment in the Brera District, where our host was waiting for us at the front door to the building.   What a sweetie!   Knowing it was our anniversary, she had set out place settings for our breakfast, together with dark chocolate Baci in the shape of a heart.   (Really regret not taking a photo!) Little did she know that Milan was where we first discovered Baci chocol...