Europe 2007

Days 5 and 6

I flew from Rome to Bergamo, a small town, about an hours drive from Milan. I seemed to be the only non Italien on this flight, I sat next to a lady about my age called Silvia, soon enough we were chatting away and after an hour we landed. Silvia was lovely she gave me her number and said to meet her in the morning and she would show me her town, Bergamo.

I went to find the bus to my hostel but I had a few guys that wouldn,t leave me alone and it was 10pm and dark and I was a bit scared. On the bus from the airport I remembered seeing the train station so I quickly walked there and got a taxi, it seemed like it took ages but I did arrive safely and 17 euros poorer! The hostel was lovely but in the middle of know where. I checked into my 8 bed dorm for the one night and fell asleep instantly.

At 10 am the next day I met Silvia at the Funicolour in Citi Alter, which was very easy from my hostel. Silvia was brilliant she showed me all the sights, ranging from the main medievil church in the sqaure up to the military castle overy looking the entire town of Bergamo. Bergamo is split into two parts. The upper and lower, both are nice but the upper is very medievil looking and un spolit, with lots of little cobbled streets filled with tiny shops, bakeries etc The funicolur is a chair lift railway which transfers people between upper and lower town, it was funny to see as it looked so ancient. I found Bergamo so beautiful and I hope to return someday before the tourists find it and ruin it. We had lunch in a bar at the Funicolour, this bar had full views of Bergamo and Milan in the distance. I had appertisers (Italien starters, little nibbles) and tried Silvias fav drink Apoleto. I thought it tasted of sweeter fizzy whisky, if that makes sence!

Sadly it was time for me to go, I thanked Silvia and she took me to the coach station to go to Boario, Lake Iseo.