Italy Travel Diaries: Milan, Pisa + Portofino! things to do / where to eat

Welcome to Ep 02 of our Italy Travel Diaries! Brandon and I picked up a car and this week we’re exploring Milan, Pisa and did a quick day trip to Portofino which was STUNNING! Also did a quick recap of Alyssa’s wedding in Tuscany and shared below all the hotels, restaurants and shops we visited in this vlog ~

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📍PISA LOCATIONS
Viareggio Italy (great location for pisa/lucca)
Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte (lovedddd this hotel! 5 stars but not that expensive)
II Piccolo Principe 2 Stelle Michelin (great experience)
Ristorante Maitò Viareggio (great deal, good food)

📍LUCCA LOCATIONS (fun medieval city to walk around)
​​Palazzo Pfanner (pretty garden)
Pan di strada (truffle sandwich was a good snack)
Gelateria Paniko (good gelato)

📍PORTOFINO (such a pretty city)
Belmond Hotel splendido (famous gorgeous hotel)
La Terrazza Restaurant (Great restaurant with a better view! Food was actually great $$$)

📍MILAN LOCATIONS
Star hotels echo (okay hotel but good location and affordable)
AALTO restaurant (asian italian fusion $$$$)
IYO restaurant (good sushi, but expensive for what it was $$$$)
Poporoya (Great asain food, great price $)

📍MILAN SHOPPING
Vintage Delirium (early vintage italian clothes)
Madame Pauline Vintage (great selection of designer vintage)
vintage studio milano (good vintage bag selection)
Gioielleria Vintage (designer vintage spendy $$$$)
Alysi (small local italy designer, cool fun stuff)

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Hello just picked up our car for the trip  leaving Florence and actually we’re going   straight to a wedding venue showing  appointment that we have and then we   are gonna head to Pisa spend a day there and  then explore around Milan welcome to week two   thank you this is look how big they are

So right after our tour we popped back  into the city grab some sandwiches cheers wow this little big ass  sandwich and my kind of sandwich raise my head it’s got the pizza it is a city is short for peace of this ass what remember  Brandon is setting it up not setting it up

Ciao we just got into our room our hotel it’s gorgeous and then we have a nice little window  right here the view is okay but super pretty and then our bathroom is huge and so  pretty the decor that they used is very classic  

We had about a one one and a half hour drive from  Florence popped over to the Tower of Pisa because   Brandon has never seen it and now we are just  gonna rest up for a little bit we have a dinner  

Reservation at the hotel restaurant which is  not your average hotel restaurant because it   has not one but two Michelin stars that’s right  so we’re excited and they also have a spa here so   Brandon I might pay for the day pass to use the  sauna steam room brand and I are very hungover  

From yesterday Brandon’s more so hungover than  I am but I’m pretty hungover still and then we   popped over at the Leica store and got myself  a little Leica camera so that’d be fun to shoot   with and I’m currently charging it up and we  took some photos while we were at pizza so  

I’m gonna edit those and maybe I’ll pop some  of the photos on here also another thing that   I appreciate about the hotels is the hidden  storage because there’s lots of place to store   are things but it doesn’t look like  cluttered or messy and there’s so much  

Feet room there’s a closet in here for jackets  shoes I know right it’s so nice but anyways if   you guys are new here my name is Christine and  Brad and I are actually in Italy for a month and  

So last week we went to Florence so if you want  to see my Vlog I’ll go ahead and Link that up in   the corner of everything that we did while we’re  there but this week we are exploring Pisa for like  

A day and then it sounds like there’s not much  to do around here so maybe we’ll go over to Milan   tomorrow and do some shopping around there see  what there is to do and then we go to Lake Como  

Later this week we also got engaged almost a year  ago now and we’re gonna be looking at some wedding   venues while we’re here as well as we have some  tours scheduled in Lake Como so maybe I’ll take  

You guys along with me we’ll see but we’re really  excited to go to Lake Como because we’ve heard   the best things about it oh yeah also the  hotel that we’re staying at is the Grand Hotel  

Principe the pimonte but it’s like 30 minutes from  the Tower of Pisa so it’s like really pretty kind   of like beachy area and yeah it’s like a little  Beach town and this is like a five-star hotel   but it really wasn’t that expensive especially  while we’re here Brian and I just picked up our  

Car so we’re renting a car for the next couple  of weeks we’re only staying in each area for   a couple of days we don’t want to spend too  much money on places so this hotel actually  

Wasn’t that expensive I think it ended up being  what one to 200 a night it was a little it was   like one something because it was like because  we’re staying here two nights and I think it’s  

300 something bucks yeah so I ended up being  not that expensive but we get like a gorgeous   five-star experience so for me like that seems  worth it to spend a little bit awkwardness they   even offered us a room upgrade for a hundred  bucks but it’s like let’s spend that hundred  

Bucks no it’s 150 per night oh 150 per night if  it was just 100 I would have done it let’s spend   that on the dinner yeah yeah true it’s nice to  have a Luxe hotel but we don’t like need to spend  

So much money on it so it’s nice when we find  jumps like this that aren’t super expensive   so anyways I think from now on I’ll leave the  name of all the hotels and restaurants that we   stay at Down Below in the description box and  I’ll also obviously pop them up on screen if  

You guys find out currently 802. we don’t have  that long of a commute it’s down three floors   oh we could take the stairs yeah we can  take the stairs that’d be a longer commute foreign foreign

And it was delicious but when the bill came out  it ended up being 450 for both me and Brandon   the restaurant’s actually connected to our hotel  which is really nice because we literally went   down a couple floors had dinner and then were  able to come back up today and I also wore no  

Makeup today which was really nice I got my brows  and lashes like laminated while I was in Seattle   and it has made getting ready so nice but dinner  was amazing there was surprisingly a lot of food  

Like we would get full and more just kept coming  so I haven’t I don’t think I’ve been this full in   like years probably like ever so delicious meal I  got like the classic set list and then Brandon got  

Like the experience one so I think mine was 185  euros and Brandon was 250 so together with all   of our drinks ended up being 450. I would say it’s  100 worth it if you go skip lunch and that will be  

Like your lunch and dinner all in one because  there was so much food and I was really happy   with my classic dish but if you want something  a little bit more crazy if you have a bigger  

Appetite and you want to explore a little bit more  Brandon’s menu is also really really good so now   we’re back at our hotel it’s around midnight  I have some work I had to do a reservation was  

At eight so that dinner was like four hours long  but yeah I slicked my hair yesterday so I kind of   just threw it up in a little bun and we actually  went to Alyssa’s wedding yesterday which is why  

We came to Italy in the first place so I’ll go  ahead and pop on some clips of her wedding but   it was gorgeous she had it at a villa in Italy  and there was a gorgeous view everything about  

It was like perfect there’s fireworks that went  off we just had a really great time but bran and   I drank a lot so this morning was a little bit  of a slower start but really good day here we  

Didn’t explore a whole lot because like I said  we’re recovering it was a travel day we probably   had like two and a half hours of driving and then  we actually are previewing another wedding venue   tomorrow morning the one that we saw earlier  today was gorgeous but it’s just way out of  

Budget but it’s good to see and that way we  can compare and kind of figure out things that   we want to look for for our next few tours that  we have in mind but anyways I will see you guys thank you what’s happening   thank you thank you  

Thank you foreign I just walked around Luca   and we went into the gardens and it was  really small but super pretty the rain   has let a little bit we are headed back to  our hotel because we have a spa appointment  

Thank you gerundo we are on the road this morning  I went to the breakfast buffet at our hotel which   is complimentary in the hotel we stayed at  is called the pimiente something we’ll pop   it on the screen but it’s probably our favorite  Hotel place that we’ve stayed at this trip and  

I would even say go so far as to say it was my  favorite place that we’ve stayed in a long time   pretty nice it was pretty nice our room was so big  the customer service was amazing I love that the  

Breakfast buffet was included and it was like not  your average continental breakfast there’s a lot   included there’s like coffees bar you have all  the pastries this morning had bacon and sausage   they had all sorts of eggs prepared every single  way and it was just a really enjoyable experience  

And then the spa was also incredible 10 out of  10 experience but we are on the way to Portofino   there’s this restaurant called La Terraza which  we saw on another girl’s YouTube video right   there’s an influence where I follow that was  Justin corfino and the restaurant looked beautiful  

And I’ve seen it on Tick Tock so we’re really  excited to do that we have about an hour and   a half car ride and then after that we’re gonna  hop over to Milan and Sam along for a night we’re  

Gonna do lots of shopping very excited Pisa was  really cute we actually stated more of a Beach   town area and it was pretty rainy and cold while  we’re there so we didn’t get to experience the  

Rooftop at all which was kind of sad and the beach  obviously we’re not going to go to the beach when   it’s like raining for this trip I actually packed  a lot of summer clothes and it’s been quite cold   so trying to get creative with the outfits foreign foreign foreign

Good morning so we are actually shopping around  Milan today but earlier this morning we actually   met with a wedding planner and we really liked  her I just picked up something at go yard   hiding in the back see you guys later so  far driving around has been pretty easy but  

Around Milan it’s been the most difficult  one Trooper yeah I mean just gotta really   really burnt in English we are really  glad that we rented a car because   onions headed to lunch right now we’re going  to IO and it’s actually I think it’s a Japanese  

Restaurant but I think it’s a brother or sister  restaurant to the one that we went to last night   which was called Alto and we really enjoyed  it it was kind of expensive and it was kind   of like Japanese Italian Fusion I’m pretty  sure it’s the same Chef must be right yeah  

And it was really good they also had a Michelin  star too which is kind of why we wanted to go   a rated an eight out of ten it was a great  experience and I’m glad we went the food  

Was really good and it’s all very unique  and different but it wasn’t like the most   incredible food like I feel like we’ve had  better Food For Less yeah there’s some really   interesting things that I had yeah and it’s  the second restaurant that I’ve had pigeon  

At yeah so it was very uh experimental and very  high-end so I think it would be good for like a   special occasion but yeah we’re excited to try  this next place it’s supposed to be more Sushi   Japanese so I think it’ll be a nice change  from all the heavier pasta and bread foreign

Foreign foreign thank you you know the drama is never ending don’t let  it get the best of you and all the fake friends the lies baby baby