Hotel Ferrari Trento

... for the Stelvio.




In case you didn't know, this road was chosen by the Top Gear TV presenters as 'Driving Heaven' a few years ago.


http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=lUF-N8BsBmU&feature=player_embedd ed

I don't think they noticed the waterfall.




We followed the pass down ...

Departed Dublin around 07:30, first stop Italy for the wedding. Arrived in Malcesine for lunch. Checked into hotel Alpino, a great little spot, right in the centre of the town, chilled for a while then caught up with friends who were already settled in.
Weather was a bit of a mixed bag, but we still had enough sunshine to make the most of our time. We got the ferry across Lake Garda to visit Limone for the amazing invisible market and ...

... boys, which was definitely nott fun. They were annoying and we really didnt have any idea of what we were doing. I was glad we only had to do it once. Lately we've been spending time in the kitchen helping out. Yesterday we made pizza and little pizza bites and today we helped make pasta and sauces. It was a long process but it was cool to sit down and eat something i just helped make. Today we also went to a meat butcher.. we had to wear hair nets, shoe covers and a ...

... depressing being waited on by our favorite servers for the last time. It was a pretty usual dinner. After dinner we headed down to the bar where we had champagne and pastries and made a toast to our amazing experience. We took a million pictures including one giant group picture. The night started winding down, which i was dreading because it meant saying more goodbyes. While we were taking pictures, we couldn't find Pino. Later on someone told me he ...

Aankomst in Italië en even de tijd nemen om uit te laden en naar Cavalese te rijden. Vandaag nog geen skiën. Onze verblijfplaats: http://www.kalditscherhof.it/home.html

... un check in via web tramite il quale è possibile scegliere il posto sul volo tramite mappa dell'aereo. Per il volo di ritorno i posti sono già assegnati dal voucher inviato via mail. Il volo prevede scalo a Heathrow con 2 ore per la coincidenza (sufficiente dato che sia la partenza che l'arrivo sono previste al Terminal 5. In ogni ...

... true meaning of the word. It's named after Maria Piaz, whose brother Tita was known as the "devil of the Dolomites", and created a track up the mountain which he named after her sister. The next day a weekend symposium was starting at which many local wine producers were exhibiting their products, accompanied by local foods - I was almost heartbroken as it's not every day you get to do something like this at 2950m with a 360 degree view of the Alps, including the glacier of ...

... We had gone outside earlier to watch them prepare Polenta in a big pot over a wood fire. We also saw them serving entire pork legs with bone in to other parties. After that drove to Borgo Castle town where we could walk around - built on hillside and like a maze to walk through. We did one cache here with both Pina and Maria getting excited. GP had parked the car and we never did meet him so wandered all around the town hunting for each other- At one ...

... a castle that the ...the Austrians? Germans? someone built to appease the bishops of Trento, because it was on the road to Rome/The Vatican. The castle was pretty cool, and I got a beautiful (but illegal) picture of the gardens! My favorite part though was the Torre Aquila (Eagle's Tower), which had frescoes inside of the 12 months. We got those little audio guide things...but in italiano! At first none of us had any clue what was going on, but ...

... the fine products of the Italian vineyards. We were even joined by Robin Wiviott for 3 days. As a threesome we decided to take on the Madonna night life. We encountered some Brits one of which was rather curious. He began by suggesting that we were American, an insult we've encountered all too often this year. After being reprimanded by his compatriots he inquired if we were from Colorado. As we began explaining to this poor lost soul that ...