Bergamo City Center2:38 PM
The Coppa Italia win was everywhere in the city by Thursday afternoon — shop windows with handwritten blue-and-black signs, a photograph in the window of the sports goods store on Via XX Settembre showing De Roon lifting the trophy, two men outside a bar gesturing while one held his phone up showing a replay.
Demien and Sophia walked through the center without a particular destination because she had a couple of hours before her driver arrived for the afternoon run to Orio al Serio, and the day was warm enough and the streets familiar enough that walking without a plan was fine.
The recognition started within the first ten minutes — a man coming the other way who looked twice and then stopped and said something in Italian that came out fast and enthusiastic, and Demien slowed to a stop while the man pulled out his phone. He took the photo, thanked him, shook his hand, and they kept walking.
