Bergamo, located west of Milan, in the region of Lombardy, is beautiful. Often overlooked for the more glitzy (and possibly more brash) Milan, it has everything. There is the lower, more modern town (Citta Bassa) – although, as well as your retail therapy kicks, you can still soak up the history of the town. Wide […]
We’ve made no secret of our love of Bergamo, a stunning walled medieval town (with a more modern lower town) in Lomabrdy, usually over shadowed by Milan. Which for us is good, because it means we can hopefully keep it as our little secret a bit longer. However, we don’t feel it’ll be a secret […]
It’s no secret that we adore Bergamo, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Easily accessible – the international airport is no more than 5km from the beautiful walled upper town – we try to escape here as often as we can. And in the coming weeks/months, we’ll be doing it even more so as […]
December is going to herald in some big changes! We fly out on 1st December to Bergamo in Northern Italy and pick up a car, which we’ll drive down to Istria. On Dec 2nd we apply for our Croatian Osobni Identifikacijski Broj numbers – ID numbers, similar to our NI numbers in the UK and […]
We’ve flown in and out of Bergamo Airport many times because a) it is perfectly located for our travels in and around Northern Italy (and most recently, into Istria) and b) you can usually always grab a bargain flight price if you can be flexible. However, now that it has been rebranded as Caravaggio International […]
So, this move isn’t your normal kind of every-day-house-move. You see, we’re selling up lock, stock and barrel and relocating abroad. To Croatia. A country we only visited for the first time in June! We still pinch ourselves, but there is definitely method in what seems madness… Moving to northern Italy has been a plan […]
Manchester > Bergamo > Lake Garda > Andalo > Istria > Zrenj… This was our journey last week to visit somewhere that we hope is going to become a new and exciting adventure. We could have taken a more direct route, using motorways and toll roads, but we decided to turn the journey into a mini […]
Bergamo, in Lombardy, Northern Italy (about 40 km north east of Milan) is one of our favourite places to travel to. With great transport links – direct flights from Manchester Airport to Bergamo Il Caravaggio International Airport (previously Orio al Serio) and Citta Bassa less than a 15 minute taxi drive away, it is very […]
We are currently looking into options for an (initial) long term let in Italy, specifically Bergamo. Whilst we love Italy, almost beyond reason, we know the country well enough to know that it is a bureaucratic nightmare and that any move will be stressful, at best 😉 We also know that doing what we do […]
If you follow this blog or our Twitter feed, you’ll probably we know love Bergamo in Northern Italy. And Vineria Cozzi, on via Bartolomeo Colleoni, the beautiful cobbled thoroughfare off Piazza Vecchia in the old, upper town, is just stunning. It’s a family run restaurant, that is just an utter delight, decor-wise. And that’s before […]
Nothing excites us more on our travels than finding unique and unusual places to stay, and Castello della Botta, high up in the hills above San Pellegrino Terme, is very definitely both! We were staying in Bergamo but decided to check out the spa town in the Brembana Valley, just 40 minutes away and […]
One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination. – Debra Lavinson We are pulled to Italy, time and time again. In September – October 2013, we did quite an extensive trip, planning as we went along. This blog will set out to record where […]