Monday, October 3, 2011

Road Trip

On Friday and Saturday, the five of us went north to Bolzano and Cortina d'Ampezzo. These two cities are in the ethnic German part of northern Italy. The countryside starts getting rough south of Trento and gets really mountainous by the time you reach Bolzano. We took the funivia (cable car) up the mountain and I was tricked into a four mile death march through the woods. We had dinner at a nice restaurant by a lake. We descended to Bolzano and stayed at a really nice hotel overlooking the city. We took another walk (this time mercifully downhill) down to the city for dinner.

The drive back to Trento was magnificent. The mountains are called the Dolomites and are different from any mountains I have seen before. I'll let you judge from the pictures.






















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