If you would like to see details about our journey, check out our itinerary and our bike route.
Ken still was not feeling well this morning. I walked to the grocery store to find some bland foods and apple juice, cooked him up a scrambled egg and a rice, broth, and carrot soup, and left him alone.
No, really, I made sure he was comfortable, with lots of liquids and medicines and soft foods at hand. But then, yes, I did take off with an audio tour on my phone, and explored the city for a couple hours.
Rain and bits of sunshine fought through the clouds. I put my raincoat on, took it off, put it back on... I had just ordered a slice of pizza to take back to the apartment for lunch, when the heavens opened again; I folded the paper plate around the warm slice and splashed through puddles and dodged umbrellas as I hurried home.
I found Ken dozing, feeling a bit better but still tired. He ate his rice soup while I ate my soggy pizza.
We'll spend another quiet afternoon here, and assess the situation in the morning. We have both had bouts of illness during trips before, and we usually recover. (There was that one time in Peru when I didn't recover...but I made it through the trip, got home, and, obviously, survived.) Ken seemed to recover from the flu last week, but he seems to be relapsing every few days, and we are getting a little concerned.
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| The Gombito Tower was built as a defensive stronghold in the 12th century, at the point where the city's two main roads intersected. It became a commercial space in the 16th century, returned to a military role during the Austrian occupation in 1849, and was ultimately gifted to the city in 1877. |
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| The Piazza Vecchia. |
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| The Palazzo Nuovo. |
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| View from the Torre del Campanone. |
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| The Rocca. |
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| The Rocca is surrounded by the Parco delle Rimembranze, a memorial to those lost in World Wars I and II. From the Rocca and the park, you can see all the way around the city--360 degrees. |
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| Looking toward the Piazza Vecchia and Piazza del Duomo. |
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| In 1561, the Republic of Venice began construction of almost 5 miles of walls to encircle Bergamo and protect the city against possible enemies. Fortunately, they were never attacked, and they remain intact and beautiful today. |
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| The lavatoio is an antique wash house built in 1881. It was used until the 1950s and served as a point for meeting and socializing as well as washing clothes. |
