I
was in Milan to discover what is new and exciting one year on
from Expo. The Metro was successfully extended for that great
international extravaganza and several new hotels and eating places
had opened, but I’d chosen, perversely, to base myself, as ever, in the
Principe di Savoia. It is the essence of a first-class, old-world hotel.
When you arrive back at the end of a long day, the tail-coated concierge
hails you to ask if the information he gave this morning proved accurate.A year on from the limelight of Expo, the city certainly isn’t
resting on its laurels. Adrian Mourby takes a tour around
a thoroughly modern Milan...Thoroughly
modern Milan
48 HOURS IN...
November 2016 ITALIA! 35Photography by Sarah Tadman Mourby unless otherwise stated“Ah, Mr Mourby, you will drink a dry martini I think?”
Not all hotels in Italy know how to serve a good martini, but at the
Principe di Savoia in Milan they absolutely get it right.“Mr Mourby, you look younger every year,
while the rest of us grow older!”
Now that is how you serve a dry martini.
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