Saturday Morning Views from the Air
I looked around at a lot of options and as I expected, at that time of year, flights were expensive. I finally settled on a non-stop flight from Philadelphia to Milan on US Airways. This option saved us over $400.00 over the next best option. It just meant that we had a four-hour drive to Philly to get to the airport on Friday afternoon, June 29, 2007.
Here is a view of the foothills of the Alps as we got close to
Milan on Saturday morning.
If you look closely, you can see some bales of hay in the fields
in the lower left part of this photo.
Another view of the ground as we got close to Malpensa Airport,
which is located west of Milan.
And here is a view of Malpensa Airport as we landed.
Once we landed we followed the signs to the area where we had to show our passports.
It was a little confusing at some points but we managed to go the right way.
We ended up in a line that didn't seem to be moving for a while.
Then it started moving and as we got to a spot where we could see what was going on, we could see that there was only one or two windows open.
As it was only about 6:35 when we landed this was not unusual, but they should have been ready for us if they knew a plane was supposed to be landing this early.
Slowly more and more windows opened up and we got through to baggage claim.
Since it had taken so long our luggage was already there, so we went on through customs where we just walked on through and then found the auto rental counters.
After a short wait we got our car and headed out to Parma.
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