Milan

 For some time I wanted to see Milan, luckily I had the opportunity to join a conference on Pregnancy and Microbiota and visit the city a bit. 

The conference was amazing, so many great talks and discussions. I get to meet many new people and interact with some of the most known professors in the field. Overall, it was great. 

The city on the other hand was not so amazing. Many people say Milan is such a beautiful city. The architecture was beautiful, but way too many people and overcrowded, which I did not like, but being there with some colleagues I got the opportunity to get to know them better which was nice. 

I travelled together by bus with one of my collaborators on a project and it was great to talk to her more and get to know her better. We had lots of fun. In the first night, we walked to the city to get craft beer from a very small craft beer shop, then we had a nice dinner together and stayed up late talking about every possible subject while enjoying the yummy craft beers. 

The next two days were really packed with the conference and meeting new people, I only had a bit of time to explore the city. 

On the last night, we had dinner in town and after sharing a bottle of wine just the two of us, we nearly missed our bus back to Graz. It was somehow stressful but also fun, we thought we had enough time to pick up our luggage from the hotel and take the metro, but we were wrong. We missed our metro and the next one was coming too late. luckily one lady was kind enough to help us call a taxi and we arrived at the bus 2 min before departure, but we made it. I was amazed that Evelyn was super calm and chill despite that we nearly missed our bus. I mean if we would have missed it we would have been an extra day in Milan. Sometimes I should just calm and not stress out if things don't work, there is always a solution.