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Stranded in St Moritz
Winter Alps Adventure
Stranded in St Moritz 11-11-12
A few days ago people were winding me up that I only managed to ride my bike a few miles from Interlaken to Grindlewald which can't be more than 30 miles or so. Well if that was a poor show then what they going to say about today when my bike never even moved off its stand!!!
I got up this morning and looked outside only to see the whole area covered in snow ...
Sunshine and snow in the Alps
... to see the dangers of these wet and icy roads. The speeds some of them take the corners at is just so dangerous. Not only do they put themselves at risk but it also puts me and others at risk as their car slips out of control on the curves. So many cars were right over the wrong side of the road on these corners and they wonder why I swear at them!!!!!
As I head on up the pass the edge of the road has piles of snow meters high from where the ploughs have cleared the road. ...
What a journey
... no English but another lady helped out. Stayed zermez then off to pontresina to catch the bernina express railway line. Ok know we have seen wonderful parts but this is even better. Got off train at ski ing area, cable car...gondola.. With all the snowboarders,skiers as season opened 20oct to diavolezza bernina 3000m. Wind howled up there through the alps, saw another glacier, nick lost his cashmere lined gloved in the wind but then picked up someone's else's flying ...
Sondrio, Tirano and the Bernina Express
... into a few boutique shops saw us leave with a few locally made goods. We hop in the car for the last leg of our Italy drive - the drive to Sondrio is only 70k but takes about 70 mins and apart from the time spent in tunnels the drive is very scenic and Northern Italy quite appealing. We drop off the car and the attendant kindly drives us to the train station to catch the train to Tirano to link with the Bernina Express. The ...
Davos
... I give it a try. I figured that this was probably going to be the last big hill climb of our trip (since most passes were closed during the winter and I wasn’t likely to be inspired then), so off I went. Rod’s bike was definitely a lot lighter but came with the disadvantage that it had fewer gears. We set off around 5 pm for our ride and Rod started off in the car a little while later. I was able to keep up to Mägge and Tanya for about the ...