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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
... to be a glorious day ahead.
As I was getting ready for my days riding I thought to myself, do I need thermals on today??? Then I thought about the passes and the freezing temps I may encounter at the top of these mountains and so I decided to dress up with every bit of kit I have.
Last night just after arriving into Edolo I took a trip up the pass road out of town and noticed a sign saying "pass closed" and so it meant having to take a massive detour. However ...
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... this cold but we have loved to be able to see it with snow. Yes first photo, nick dumped snow over me, thanks for that, so the pussy ran when I threw it back and lost his glasses in the snow. Frantic 5mins then found hence his photo. Typical. He is trying to say he meant to have a funny photo. It is a lovely village, horse running in the meadow just over the road, chasing a dog out.We saw grape vines all the way up ...
The Italian Pit Stop
... Top Dogs who wanted to leave their scent upon the woods, stones and sky of this land, to own and control it, scratched up more suffering and growling between the humans who spoke the different languages. The humans felt that no one was listening to their howling and whining, no one understood, and so used some noisy, fiery bombs of destruction. Fairly recently, the Top Dogs have listened and understood the howling and whining and have concocted ...
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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