You could say we’re blessed with abundance here at The Culture Vulture, our Editor Phil Kirby was offered a two night stay and flight to a hotel launch this week in Milan…
But the dear man has been brought low by bronchitis and cannot attend. Talk about terrible misfortune.
So we’re appealing to you, bloggers, writers, wits, people of the world to tell us in the most amusing fashion why it should be you who goes in Phil’s place.
The flight is for one person and leaves at an ungodly hour of 7am from London Gatwick this Thursday 30th October. Meaning a 5am check in…
You have until 10am Wednesday 29th October to tell us in the comments box below ‘What you’d do if you had 48 hours in Milan and why that would be of interest to the readers of The Culture Vulture’ – Put any blog/twitter details in your comments and look out for an email if you are successful.
Here’s the itinerary, please only put your witty response to the following question in the comments if you think you can definitely go and then report back for us in a blog and via twitter* Phil says he’ll choose the best writer for this assignment!
Thursday 30th October 2014
07:00 Flight 5289 departs London Gatwick (South Terminal)
09:50 Flight arrives Milan Malpensa (Terminal 2)
10:30 Check-in Moxy Milan (confirmation #83263317). The hotel is right outside Terminal 2 and you can see the hotel from the terminal building, it’s just across the road.
11:00 Hotel tour
19:30 Hotel Launch Party
Friday 31st October 2014
Day at your leisure
Saturday 1st November 2014
Day at your leisure
16:00 Check out of Hotel
18:00 Flight 5298 departs Milan Malpensa (Terminal 2)
18:55 Flight arrives London Gatwick (South Terminal)
Hi Guys,
I’d to combine a mix of high and low culture….from La Scala to the San Siro. I’ve been to Milan for a few days before and that seems to sum the city up, being both modern and the hub of business, whilst also being home to some beautiful history.
Working out if I can make it or not but if you can let me know ASAP then I should be able to let you know.
Paul
Ooooh, if you can call me to speak out this I’ll twitter DM my number.
I would love the opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Milan with a fresh pair of eyes, having never visited the city or even the country before. I’d use those two free days as a sort of beginner’s guide to Milan, exploring the cultural hub from scratch and routing out the best places to visit, eat and enjoy just by wandering around and taking it in. I’d report all my findings back in a long post for my blog, some live tweets from the day and via pictures on my Instagram.
I can get to London for that flight so I hope you’ll consider me!
Hayley 🙂
Pourque hablo italiano muy bien. Oh, hang on…
Unfortunately I can’t go but having never flown would have been a great opportunity… & of course a chance to sample the food! However I believe you requested something amusing & I haven’t read any such thing so far… Come on girls how about telling everyone how much you’d like to get a taste of the men of Milan! Or someone do something a little risqué out there! We readers want to be amused not bored!
I could pop over & mop Phil’s brow!
What would I do with 48 hours in Milan? This question echoes in my head sung in a sleazy manner that only Phil Collins can do justice. But let’s just forget that image for a minute. Now Phil, I could try impress you with my hot off the press top degree or tell you that I presented on the radio and kept a blog that has amassed a following on facebook and has 100,000+ views. But that too would be cheesy and boring. So this is what I would do with my 48 hours in Milan.
Like any self respecting culture vulture I would visit the art galleries and bask in the classics that Milan has to offer. I would visit restaurants and slowly order one thing at a time to stop them from closing early – a bug bear of mine. I would converse with old euro-chic Italian ladies in a language half English and half God leaving them bewildered. In the evenings I’d run in to the dark alleys where the disaffected artists sit and smoke. There I imagine Julie Delpy shall come to me, if not in person then at least in spirit, and we will talk and walk into the sunset. And if she slips away without so much as a goodbye then that’s ok. Because In only have 48 hours in Milan.
Naturally I would also write about the hotel launch party because that would be of interests to the Culture Vulture.
As a graduate who’s recently moved to London, it’s fair to say that I’m not really living the high life right now. Being able to feign success by attending such a swanky sounding event in Milan is high on my list of priorities which currently include: waking up AND going to sleep.
Having covered foreign festivals/events before, I understand that the culture of the country I’m visiting should be appropriately dissected and satirically compared with our supreme British stoicism. The Italian approach to life is quite different to that of a bearded fellow from Birmingham, however pretending to enjoy difficult situations is something that we Brummies do on a daily basis.
Why should you send me to Milan? Well, other than having a camera on my INTERNET CAPABLE PHONE, I’d also take along my DSLR to get some nice snaps of the aesthetically superior Italians. Using my undefined jawline, scrawny frame and pathetic chat to woo/offend the Milanese hegemony should make for a good read. Juxtaposition, or something.
Alternatively I could be paying £10 for a bottle of Heinneken at a Halloween party in some clapped out Shoreditch *cool spot*. Your call.
I’d probably just find the nearest Itish bar and have a few pints while watching a replay of some of the week’s English football matches on Sky Italia. After that I’d wander around aimlessly for a while taking in buildings and stuff before having more food and drink.
Oh, an I’d probably go to the hotel launch too (there will be free food and drink right?)
That should obviously say ‘Irish’ bar. I’d also take a couple of minutes to spell check any future article and probably not type it on my phone hurriedly before the deadline with my fat fingers