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The mighty Dolomite Passes
... are no such things for bikes. He was standing there speaking right into my face just like a head would have done in school days. He then asked me where I was from and I replied "I'm from Scotland". He went totally silent as though to say "I should have guessed". While he stood there giving me a bolloking I was finding it extremely hard not to laugh and finally I just burst out laughing!! He was not impressed and started telling me I was totally mad to be out on a motorcycle ...
Onwards to find the Dolomites
... in Scotland it really feels freezing.
The first 20 or so miles along route 42 are nothing special but there were a few side roads heading up to passes etc and I was very tempted to head up a few of them and take a look but eager to see the Dolomites put a end to that.
Soon the bends begin and we start climbing upwards and it’s cooling down by the minute. Patches of snow start appearing at the sides of the road and before long the temp is down to 1 Celsius ...
Info for my travel blog
... apple trees laden with fruit, at least we think that's what they were. Bell chimes every hour I think, will know doubt find out tonight. Will go up cable car again tomorrow and then bus onto Saltria, unsure really as can,t get any other info than in rick steves Italy book, tourist information is closed. So will check Internet, bloke at our accom,lucky, he has been the only one to speak English to us so far. See what ...
The Italian Pit Stop
... Top Dog called Benito (who left a nasty tune hanging in the air) felt scared of the German speakers who were already living in this earthy gift and so moved in as many Italian human and dog speakers as he possibly could. Living German speakers were not allowed to use their language or have any important jobs and dead German speakers had their special messages for the living scraped from their tombstones. Even after the discordant death of ...
A fantasia journy
... I'm driving slow...very slow...I mean very very very slow...I could walk it faster. For ten minutes I couldn't breath the view was stunning and extremely dramatic, it was abyss all around and the huge rocks of the Dolomites were closing on us from above...I have to admit I don't like them at all those rocks, remember disney's movie fantasia?? If so, there is the part with Stravinsky music, in this piece there is a bold mountain that look exactly like the Dolomites figures...in the ...