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The mighty Dolomite Passes
... of the trees and into the open mountains the whole pass is a white out!! The only other colors are the mighty Dolomites poking their masses of rock out from the snow. Soon I reach "Giau summit" and unlike when I was here in mid-summer when it was filled to the limit with bikes it was now totally dead with not a single bit of movement to be seen. As always another load of photos and I’m off down the other side of the pass just for a quick look. Twenty minutes later ...
Onwards to find the Dolomites
... in Scotland it really feels freezing.
The first 20 or so miles along route 42 are nothing special but there were a few side roads heading up to passes etc and I was very tempted to head up a few of them and take a look but eager to see the Dolomites put a end to that.
Soon the bends begin and we start climbing upwards and it’s cooling down by the minute. Patches of snow start appearing at the sides of the road and before long the temp is down to 1 Celsius ...
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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 ...
Return to Forni di Sopra
... the van to get me!
The following day, we went for another walk through Forni and went down to the mill with Sue to visit Dino’s mother, who lives above the mill’s office. She’s a sweet old lady and only speaks Italian so we were glad to have Sue to translate. She was very happy to see us and after an espresso there, we went downstairs to feed the kittens. There were some tiny kittens that were very hungry so we fed them some old ...
Forni di Sopra, a quick visit
... pond to show Dad & Tan around while Sue taught piano. We arrived back at the house and had a good chance to catch up on news before dinner. Afterwards we looked at Sue’s old slides that she had transferred on to the computer from the time she, Dad, Mom and a group of their friends went to Hawaii when they were in their late teens/early twenties. It was really fun seeing all the old photos and we were amazed at ...