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The mighty Dolomite Passes
Winter Alps Adventure
St Christina to Cortina 14-11-12
After a poor night sleep in St Christina I got up at 8am and looked out the window. It looked extremely cold outside and frost was lying all around. I wonder how my poor bike has coped with this weather, I thought.
Boxes all packed and a quick check over the bike it's into the coffee shop for a cuppa and then off up the road to explore the mountains.
Well I did not get off to a good ...
Onwards to find the Dolomites
... been gritted but water flowing across the road had washed all the grit away and was now freezing over and made it extremely dangerous for me. Extreme gentle handling of the bike was the only solution!!
Finally I reach the summit of the pass and not long after enter the town of Vermiglio (I think) where there is loads going on. The cable car is running taking skiers to the top of the surrounding mountains and the whole town just seems alive with people. I stop here for a cuppa ...
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Left padova train to Verona from there suppose to be a fast train to Bolzano, yes it broke down so were put on normal fast regional train, bugger, only ended up 30mins longer somehow normally 90 mins. From Venice we saw the mountains, on the way to Bolzano we were closer, on the way to castelrotto saw them again, snow on the ground as well, then cable car up to top took 15 mins and amazing all the way. They said it is ...
The Italian Pit Stop
... horse massacre, called a war, in foul fields and ditches of death, almost a hundred years ago, some Top Dogs had decided to take these woods and mountains from the country of Austria and give them as a present to Italy (a poem called The Battle-Field describes this war very vividly www.thedups.com/pauls-poems/miscellaneo us ). There were many tails hanging between the legs amongst the German and Ladin human speakers of the Sud Tirol, Alto ...
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 ...
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