Blue Notes

The rain is hammering down outside. Cold winds whip at the trees and the rooftops. I'm wearing a thick green jumper. And yet, for some reason, I'm still here typing up a trip to Milan that happened back in July, when it was so hot I had to wear a stupid hat. I know you don't care, and to be honest, even I've lost some of the will, but I have to do it for completion's sake, you know?When you leave San Cristoforo station you're confronted with this enormous spiralling loop above your head. Climb up to street level and there it is rising up out of a park.It's a footbridge, constructed to take people across the barrier of the railway tracks, and to link the two halves more equitably. The M4 was the prompt for its construction, and indeed the depot for the line is right behind here; there are already proposals for an extension to Buccinasco beyond. For now it's just this grandiose footbridge.Outside the station is a long pedestrian plaza with gardens and a playground. The traffic was very…