With my flight leaving out of MXP at nine in the morning, I decided to play it safe and return to Milan a day early, spending the day in the city and heading towards the airport in the evening. There isn’t too much to see or do in Milan, so I decided to wander around to different parts of the city.
Corso Buenos Aires
Without much else to do, I took the subway out towards Lotto to see Meazza Stadium, the home of AC Milan and FC Internationale. The stadium was a much longer walk from the Metro station than I expected, and it took me 15-20 minutes through residential areas to get there. After looking around for a bit, I took the bus/tram back towards Duomo and spent some time looking around at shops and food before going to Milano Centrale to catch the Malpensa Express to the airport.
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Milano Centrale
Once at the airport, it took me awhile to find where to catch the hotel bus, and I had to call the hotel to get help locating it, but the Holiday Inn Express was a short ride away with regular buses approximately every half hour. The area where the airport hotels are clustered is in a lightly populated neighborhood without much else, but I managed to find a small bar/restaurant where I ordered some pizza to take back to my room. Yes, I ate a lot of pizza this trip, but it was all pretty good, and it’s one of the few decent meals that you can eat on the cheap. The room was small but adequate.
Holiday Inn Express Milan-Malpensa Airport
