THE ROMAN HOLIDAYS BERGAMO

Monday, May 19, 2014

THE ROMAN HOLIDAYS BERGAMO

Any thing connected to Italy reminds me of the famous movie " Roman holiday " , which I cant stop watching even today....and of course the famous comic series Asterix...

I came to Milan for 2 weeks and now it is almost 8 weeks and wondering if I will ever get back to kitchen , I mean home. Almost everyday I get mails and phones from friends if I have visited Rome, Florence, Pisa, Venice etc etc and get confused if I have come here for work or on holidays!! If I say so, they will say , we are talking about saturdays and sundays. It is impossible to convince them that I prefer to laze around in my appartment rather than going for site seeing...They dont know I have honors in Laziness and will certainly get Ph.D if I want.

Anyway, I must see some places at least , otherwise my official visit to Italy would be useless in the eyes of others even if I had most useful weekends after years, lazing around.

I dont intend to write a travelogue here in my food posting . I am just sharing some photos, internet link to this place of visit .

BERGAMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamo
Bergamo is a pretty town of some 120,000 people nestling in the foothills of the Alps. Widely acclaimed as a city of rare beauty, Bergamo is famous for its wealth of artistic treasures and enchanting medieval atmosphere. It is a real life tale of two cities: “Città Bassa”, the busy and modern lower city, and "Città Alta", the upper city with its rich heritage of art and history.It takes 1hr 30 min by regionale trains and 1 hr by fast trains.(from Milan)

So on a fine Saturday late morning I set out with my colleague Sunny. He is a young Chinese engineer from Hong Kong, in his mid 20s and I have made him very fond of real spicy Indian curry with basmati rice and has never eaten Indo- chinese dishes and I dont want to try it too.

So we walked down to Garibaldi station next door, missed the 11 AM train rushed to Milano Centrale , spent 20 minutes for buying ticket missed the fast train and again rushed back to Garibaldi and finally got into a train. ( the slower but cheaper ones)

At Bergamo station , a surprise was waiting for us. Preparation for a Carnival was going on which was supposed to start around 3 PM or so. I was delighted that I would see some great event.

Walking from the station to the old city at Hill top.1 Out side Bergamo station