It’s never too late to reinvent

As a city, Milan isn’t particularly loved by its fellow Italians - no ‘cradle of the Renaissance’, no ‘Serenissima’. It has its fair share of both history and museums, but less blatant, less Lonely Planet. Moreover, the sun seems to have forgotten that Milan is in Italy and is all too often replaced by grey skies and cold temperatures - not exactly your idyllic ‘O Sole Mio’ Italian setting. Milan also has the reputation of being unfriendly, workaholic, stressful and, last but not least, crazy expensive. It’s no wonder that the rest of Italy, being mostly cool, laid-back and relatively cheap (at least compared to the rest of Europe) thinks so little of it: a stressful swamp with expensive pizza.

So far, she has taken in more kids than the rest of her extended family put together, including me.

But is all of this actually true?

Milan is in fact expensive,