I have the chance to spend some weeks in the apartment of my friend and colleague Russell Dyer in Milan, Italy. I’ll be living and working here for couple of weeks and tour around for 10 days in central Italy later.

This is not my first visit to Italy. I was already in Sorrento and Naples before with MySQL when we had a DevCon there. It is my first time though that I have to buy bread, milk and groceries in Italian shops and try to figure out what they said! I don’t speak a word Italian except for the very basics. Speaking fluently french helps, though my head is getting a mess speaking sometimes 4 languages in a day..

I’ll see if I survive, but I’ll do great I think!

Btw, first thing that came as a blow to me, or at least my ears: Milan is damn loud! Maybe it’s something general in Italy.. I’ll check it out.