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Krimml is home to the highest waterfalls in Europe. I took a quick day trip out there, and took a gander at them. This is another example of how fit the people of teh Alps are. I was told it was an easy trail that anyone can hike - only 4 km. In Canada, an easy trail is really something that anyone, regardless of level of fitness or hiking experience, can do. So I was wearing a dress and sandals. Ya, this was not ...

Today was a slow day. We drove out to Auronzo, which is a small lakeside town that we passed on the way to Cortina from Uldine on Sunday. We hiked around the lake and walked around town some, grabbing ice cream and window shopping at the craft and souvenir stores.

Cortina D'Ampezzo, Veneto, Italy brian796

... were gone, Cindy and Alycia walked around town some and went to a market next to the hotel. They grabbed pizza at a new restaurant, which all of us returned to that night for a nice dinner. Trey and I ate several meals apiece in a single sitting to make up for the energy expended during the day. We have a newfound appreciation for the bikers competing daily in the Tour de France this month.

... nice views off of the trails of Rio de Fanes and we then returnied to Alycia, who happened to be right next to the falls we were looking for. It was a 3 hour hike covering about 7 miles going up to 1500 meters or more.

Trey was feeling better late in the day, so the family walked around town a while tonight before eating dinner and calling it a night. Tomorrow will be much more strenuous as Trey and I are planning an all-day bike ride.

... ascent of the Col de Bos. We arrived just as the military finished it's training there. The soldiers happily directed us to the "attack" of the climb across from the old Italian war hospital.
The tradition of via ferratas goes back roughly to the supply lines needed to access the remote perches of the Great War. So ladders were fastened to the hillside, iron rungs were hammered into steep cliffs and ropes were used to secure the ascent. Out of necessity was ...

... cant mistake when you cross the border from Austria into Italy!!! the perfect roads and maintained properties stop abruptly!! I found what turned out to be a fantastic free camp spot well back off the road, next to a creek,hidden from the highway, bordering a national park because I was getting tired and it was late, but I wasnt very popular! we were going to get murdered in our beds, you dont know what sort of people they are ...

Here there is a map in Google Maps where you will see the cities that we plan to visit this year. All of them are new for us, although we are old Spain travelers. The planned route is the blue one. The red one is called "Plan B" in case of bad weather or other reasons of changing our plans.

Winter season is over, Eastern is over, what ever should I wait to go over before I can start to plan our next holidays ? NOTHING AT ALL !!! This year I would like to blog about our vacations while being on the road and so our friends and our relatives can follow the going on of the driving and ...

It was my plan initially to launch an assault on one of the larger mountains near here today. However, I didn't pull up all that well after yesterdays warm-up walk! In the interest of not pushing to hard and potentially wrecking myself for future days seeing as we still have a couple of days left in our holiday, we decided to turn our hand to some Nordic walking today. Nordic walking is essentially power walking, using what look like ski-poles to provide you with multiple points of ...

... floor under the bed, but what a laugh. We cooked a curry and cracked a couple of bottles of red. Definitely broke our record for maximum number of people in the van, sorry Tammy!!!

Next morning, we headed off to the pass. The pass was built in the 1950s as not only a picturesque pass which tourists could pay to cross, but to use labour to boost the economy. It is one of the most twisty, turny, most stunning roads in the world. Blanketed in snow ...