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Travel Blogs from Scena
Onwards to find the Dolomites
... my heated grips for warmth!!
Soon I was back to about 1000m altitude and the white stuff had gone and the warm sunshine had warmed the air temp to a wonderful 12 Celsius. The road was now perfectly dry and was great for riding on. I flew along keeping up with the other cars well above the speed limit as they all seem to do here in Italy. At this rate I would be at the Dolomites in no time at all..............or so I thought!!
As always something had to give and ...
Info for my travel blog
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 ...
Back to Stelvio pass we wind
... night.
29/9/12
We both had a fairly interrupted sleep, mostly due to Rhys blowing his nose. However this did mean we could have a lazy morning! We finally stumbled out of the tent around 9am and went to find warmth in the reception/café building where we were able to get onto Skype finally and chat to my family and Karina, which was fantastic, Rhys’ parents were not home. After chatting for a while our stomach’s ...
Starting the dolomite way
... Austria. Everything is written in German, Italian and english. We ate dinner and had a great pizza and an amazing apple strudel for dessert (see the Facebook photo!) unfortunately for us we didn't have enough time to wander its small streets and boutique shops, as tomorrow we are having a most exciting day - driving on the grand dolomite way. Since the weather forecast predicted also heavy rain in the are, this will be even more of an adventure! Wish me luck not to fall off a ...
Other places to stay in Scena
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Hilburger
San Giorgio 4/B, Scena | 3 star hotelfrom $174 -
Hotel Wickertsheim
Verdins 46, Scena | 3 star hotelfrom $139 -
Christoph's Hotel Der Sinne
Schennastrasse 2, Scena | 4 star hotelfrom $163 -
Baumgartner's Blumenhotel
Via Verdines 11, Scena | 4 star hotelfrom $236 -
Hotel Hohenwart
Verdinserstr. 5, Scena | 4 star hotelfrom $321 -
Finkennest
Via al Castello 16, Scena | Hotelfrom $246 -
Vitalhotel Verdinserhof
Verdins 7, Scena | 4 star hotelfrom $175 -
Schenna Resort
Via Strada Vecchia 14 , Scena | 3 star hotelfrom $211 -
Hotel Fink
Via Verdines 9/B, Scena | 4 star hotel -
Sonnenparadies
Verdinser-Strasse 41 , Scena | 3 star hotelfrom $209 -
Hotel Resmairhof
Schennastrasse 11, Scena | Hotelfrom $272 -
Schennerhof
Schennastr. 3, Scena | 3 star hotelfrom $117 -
Hotel Furstenhof
Verdins 48, Scena | 4 star hotelfrom $164 -
Hotel Panorama
Verdinserstr. 49, Scena | Hotelfrom $207 -
Hotel Finkenhof
Verdinserstr. 9B, Scena | 4 star hotelfrom $149
