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St Christina to Cortina 14-11-12
After a poor night sleep in St Christina I got up at 8am and looked out the window. It looked extremely cold outside and frost was lying all around. I wonder how my poor bike has coped with this weather, I thought.
Boxes all packed and a quick check over the bike it's into the coffee shop for a cuppa and then off up the road to explore the mountains.
Well I did not get off to a good ...
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 ...
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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
... Ears are held forward, tails held high and licks are abundant; this is a time called peace between all the humans who speak the different languages which they now share with each other. Everyone has the home, bark and mobile urinals that they should have. Local packs of humans are helping this peace last, for example Alpha Beta Piccadilly www.alphabeta.it, through supporting humans to learn about, appreciate, respect and understand ...
A fantasia journy
... pretty quiet, a few unlucky tourist like us looked for shade in the rain, luckily there where a few stores open, we also found a fancy store for baby cloth, 250€ for a coat!!!! Who would pay this amount for coat that will be good for a few months??? After a very "touristic"strudel in one of the open caffes we decided to buy some food in the mini market and to cook them in our very well equipped apartment. We bought ngucci, ravioli and souces....we are going to eat now!!! Good ...
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