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Skiing in the Dolomites
What an incredible wedding present! Judy and Keld took us to their favorite ski vacation spot, the gorgeous Dolomite mountains of Northern Italy. For nine days the Hotel Cappella as our base, we skied miles of terrain and soaked up the sunshine and culture of the Sud Tirol region. Our days were spent both on the slopes an in one of the countless …
The mighty Dolomite Passes
... Soon I’m at the summit of "Pordoi pass" which is 2239m above sea level. The weather up here is glorious sunshine and the temp an amazing 10 Celsius. However, even though the sun is so hot the whole place is covered in snow. There are a number of hotels and restaurants but there is no sign of life in any of them.
I took a short walk to the top of a nearby hill and just about drowned in the snow. There must have been at least 6ft of snow up here.
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Onwards to find the Dolomites
... place is full of snow.
The road is becoming harder and harder to ride on with patches of ice all over the show. I’m having to ride extremely gently up this winding road and simply keep my speed to about 25mph.
The pass we are climbing is "Passo del Tonale" which is only 1884m at the summit.
I stopped my bike on a number of occasions on the way up this pass and was extremely surprised just how slippery it was even to walk on this road surface. The ...
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... 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 ...
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