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Ogni Santi
... but I really would not wanna drive up there.
On friday we saw the castle buon consiglio, it was old but quite interessting. at night we went on to Bolzano/Bozen in South Tyrol. We stayed a friend of a friends house, we've never met before. but it was vey nice. giavanni lives with heidi, who is from south tyrol. It was so interessting talking to her about the situation in there, Ofiicially they belong to italy, but ...
A day of cold and hot
... on as well as my one piece rainsuit but took the rainsuit off to go on the cableway. Big question now was do I keep it off or do I want it back on to keep the heat in???
I decided to leave it off and headed up the pass. The temp had risen slightly now and the road was totally dry making it much safer for me to ride on.
Back up over the summit and it was all downhill now. The valley below looked wonderful and I just could not help but stop about every ...
No marmite, just rain
... Giant's pot. Disappointed not to find a large pot of marmite, as my imagination had led me to believe... this site was created by erosion during the ice age, these are little more than deep holes in the rock, one of which requires climbing up a iron ladder and the other is a deep pool of murky water. It was certainly worth the stop, as there was of course a geocache there and on International Earth Cache day... it couldn't be missed ;).
After this we ventured back down ...
Hiking ahead of the marathon
... dry along the route. The climb back down, of course is easier but it is difficult to stay upright with the numerous loose stones underfoot.
Tomorrow Lake Garda hosts a marathon which according to the web is expecting 65,000 visitors and therefore the roads are close around the Northern end of the Lake... so it will be another en foot option for us and hopefully a trip down to Torbole and the Marmite Giant :).
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Otzi the Iceman
... are written in Italian and German) but Bolzano is a special case - it speaks Italian. Like being a foreigner in your own country. Its under an hour by train from Trento, easy. There seems to be plenty to do here - the Messner Mountain Museum about alpine climbing through the ages, several castles, 3 cable cars up the surrounding mountain and of course the Iceman Otzi. We had planned to hire bicycles but when we got there ...