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Reaching into Milan!

We arrived in Milan when it was a little past over dawn. We changed into new clothes and headed to the train ticket counter to purchase our local train tickets; Milano Centrale (pronounced as Chentrale) to Lanza. We got the map and figured out how to get to Lanza. We had to take a couple of different train routes to get there. It took nearly 30 minutes from airport to get to the city. The sight outside the train was a bit different from the US's. Orderly lined up brick houses, tiled roofs, different flora, etc. The trees in Italy appeared in faded green as compared to the trees in the US that are always in lush green. I found more similarities between India and Italy - The brick houses, vegetation, people speaking a different language, Whatsapp using people (I learnt that people in India, Mexico, Brazil and Italy majorly use whatsapp for messaging) and many more. We were altogether in a different country; not India, not USA but Italy, which didn't feel different to us. We were