{"id":661,"date":"2015-10-19T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T07:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2015-10-19T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T07:30:42","slug":"milan-expo-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Milan Expo 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am now back in Berkeley, enjoying the sun as New York State slowly covers in snow. So to remember my brief time in Italy, I give you some photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Coffee<\/a><\/td>\n\"Milan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Coffee Forum finale<\/b><\/td>\nMilan Expo 2015<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Above is the last event of the World Coffee Forum, with a ceremony of countries around the world symbolically pouring coffee beans into a mixed bag (which we all got a small sachet of). After the event, we were left free to wander the Milan Expo, 12 million square feet of exhibits designed to make a person hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Malaysian<\/a><\/td>\n\"Another<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malaysian Expo site<\/b><\/td>\nAnother Expo pavilion<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Every country had a “pavilion”– or part of one, or multiple ones– consisting of a building constructed solely for the Expo. The pavilions seemed to reflect the aspirations of each country, whether mosque-like Qatar, souring Russia, Poland-the-hashtag, or Korea’s building of robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Train<\/a><\/td>\n\"Park<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milan Science museum<\/b><\/td>\nPark Sempione<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Having seen the Expo on the last day of the Forum, I wandered the city before heading to Nice, visiting the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, with its building of trains, and Park Sempione near the Castello Sforzesco (deserted, because of a little drizzle).<\/p>\n

I went to Nice, France, before coming back, but I have no pictures of it because the rain followed me and drenched my phone. It took the phone a week to recover, but it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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