A Year of Planning Passes

Tomorrow we go home. For over a year, Sheelagh has been searching and planning for this trip. And now it is coming to a close.

On Friday, we had our last morning in Milan. Bea chose to go down for one more Granite from the place we went the first day. A sort of closure I suppose.

Sheelagh then discovered that Da Vinci's Vineyard was right next door, so we took a tour of that.

The wealthy guy, who had commissioned that Horse back there, and the Last Supper, owned two houses in the countryside of Milan. Over the years, he gave one to a trusted servant and kept one. Centuries later, they were joined to make one place. Now, they are high end apartments except for the ground floor, which the plebs can visit.
This is the courtyard.

This is the ceiling of the entrance hall.

 


The drawing room .

The gardens were, and are beautiful.

Looking back toward the house.

In the back was a vineyard that Leonardo was given by the original owner.  He planted the vines and tended them with care. When the French over ran Milan, he lost the vineyard for a while. But then he got it back and took care of it until his death. Now, of course, everything is in the middle of the city. But it was like finding a secret garden of tranquility.

During the war it was destroyed by bombs. But using his notes, and DNA testing, they have restored it with the same kind of vines. 

It was then a bit of a shock to go from the sublime to the ridiculous that was our easyJet flight to London!