After a night out and inevitably sleeping in much later than we had hoped to, Tomás, LB, Audra, Tomas' friend Eva, and I caught the train from Milan to the cute, hilly town of Bergamo. As I mentioned before, the weather wasn't great, but the scenery was. There was a big difference between Milan and Bergamo in terms of how green it was. As you can see in the picture, everything's much more spaced out and there are lots of trees and little gardens.
There wasn't a whole lot to do in Bergamo. The way the town is set up, there's an upper and a lower part of town. The upper part of town is located up on a hill and seemed to me to be like the original, "old" Bergamo. As the city expanded, I would guess that it grew to include what is now considered the lower town, which looks pretty much like a standard big European city.
As far as activities go, there wasn't much to do in Bergamo so we just took a little tram-type thing up to the upper part of town and wandered around.. I'd say the highlight was getting gelato, delicious Italian ice cream. Yes, I said that was the highlight. I am a fat kid. I got pistachio and coffee. SO good.
Once the sun went down, we started making our way down to the lower town to catch the train back to Milan. We got in relatively late, grabbed some pizza in a cheap little bar next to the train station and then took the metro back to Tomás' place to hang for the night as we were all exhausted.
The next morning we got up early, went into Milan to see some of the few parts that we had missed and the headed back to Tomas' to get our bags and head to the station. I caught the bus to the airport at 1:30 and LB and Audra caught their train to Venice at 2.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that LB and Audra are doing like a EurRail kinda trip. They started in Rome, met me in Milan, and then headed to Venice and are currently in Florence. Tomorrow they're off to Barcelona for a couple days then the last two stops will be Granada and Almería!
The ETA in Almería for LB is Wednesday night--Audra, sadly, is heading back on Tuesday after Barcelona :( --so I'm gonna be using the rest of my vacation time, Sunday and Monday, to get all my classes ready so I'll be able to do stuff when she gets here! SO excited to have her here again and to show her all the stuff we missed last year! I'm toying with the idea of renting a car and driving out to Cabo de Gata on Saturday morning if I can't find anyone with a car to bum a ride off of. While I don't want vacation to end, I'm ready for her to get here! :)
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