Marvellous MILANO

I have to admit that I didn’t expect to see pink and orange flamingos (what are they fed?) slap-bang in the middle of Milan. I was peering through a hedge enclosing an elegant villa, and to my surprise saw the long-legged birds stepping delicately around a small pond.

“This was the home of Romeo Invernizzi, who took a dairy farm and turned it into a cheese empire,” explained our guide Caterina Ongoro. “He and his wife Enrica wanted to give something back, so the building became a research foundation. The deal was that the flamingos