Residence Alle Palme
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Ogni Santi
... pretty much their own country. everything is written in german and italian, and most people speak both, at least a bit. But since I don't really look like an italian, they talked in german to me. And the city itself felt very german also, well bavarian. They have a nice tradition in Bolzano, every saturday morning they meet in this one restaurant and have some bread with all kinds of covering and a bianchetto, which is ...
A day of cold and hot
... then come out above and looking back it’s like a sea in the sky. To the East I can see the road over the pass to which I was just riding.
After 15 minutes I step out the car and onto the mountain of ice. The whole place is a mass of white snow and ice. Even though I’m almost 3km high up in the sky I’m still surrounded by even higher mountains. There are skiers all over the place having fun in the snow while I stand here with my camera ...
Back to civilization
... little kids playing in the streets! One little girl, about 4, looked at us as we were passing through, put her hand out for us to stop, which we did while she retrieved a toy she didn't want us to run over! It was too funny. We returned to Saponara, only to find a note with my name on it, and directions to our room. It was probably there when we arrived the first time, and just didn't see it. Nino and the Saponara are a lovely ...
No marmite, just rain
... Giant's pot. Disappointed not to find a large pot of marmite, as my imagination had led me to believe... this site was created by erosion during the ice age, these are little more than deep holes in the rock, one of which requires climbing up a iron ladder and the other is a deep pool of murky water. It was certainly worth the stop, as there was of course a geocache there and on International Earth Cache day... it couldn't be missed ;).
After this we ventured back down ...
Otzi the Iceman
... the research centres and government. Some of them claim they are Otzi's reincarnation, another that they recognise Otzi's clothing as belonging to their dead next door neighbour and someone else that they know precisely how Otzi died...if you give me $5000 I'll tell you. Otzi is now a skinny runt of a mummy, presented naked to the public with his tattoos still visible. His clothing, backpack, weapons and food are on ...