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The mighty Dolomite Passes
... valley. The whole valley, which must be about 10 miles across was filled with thick cloud and simply looked like a sea with great mountains surrounding it. One mountain reminded me of mount "Sugarloaf" in Rio, Brazil as it came straight out the cloud just like "Sugarloaf" just about does.
After taking loads more photos of this stunning sight I headed down the pass on yet another really winding road. However it soon headed into all the cloud in the valley and so ...
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
... br> Meanwhile……..we had a little chasse for somewhere to stay in the vicinity of Bolzano, Bozen. It was while we were on this escapade that we began to learn about the curious undertow which was flowing beneath these serene sniffing grounds. On top of the mountains my friend Finn and his mistress addressed us in Ladin, signs to a mountain lake (whose immaculate reflections dogs were not allowed to jump in to and sully) were ...
A fantasia journy
... beautiful I have no words in English or in Hebrew to describe this beauty. After 3hours of hard driving we reached the first point to take the cable car...l but what a surprise it was closed...all the cable cars in this area closed because of the weather....oooofffff....we felt so bad cause we really wanted to do it Sadly we kept driving to cortina de'ampezzo...I have to admit that after driving the passo sela everything was a piece of cake...this way too was very curvey, I could ...
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