We haven't had wifi for a few days so I've had an enforced break from Facebook and my digital networks.
I have however, been continuing to take photos of some of the sights and scenes we have seen and they have been spectacular.
After our few days in Trento, which was very Italian in look and feel, we picked up our rental car (a Jeep renegade) and drove to Moena. What a gorgeous place this was. It was like driving into a children's story book of Heidi or something. So many cute chalets in little villages with utterly majestic mountains surrounding them. We hired bikes and took the cable car to the top of a mountain then cycled around and down to the bottom again.
The next day we went for a walk up and around the valley.
Next we went from Moena to Bressanone where Barry met us after a full 12 hours of travelling (taxi-train-plane-bus-train-train). Here we hired bikes again and went on another epic bike ride. Once again we took a cable car right to the top of a mountain and then did some big loops and up and down valleys and eventually took a bunch of tracks down to the bottom.
The next day we headed off to Cortina stopping to do the world famous 'Tre Cime di Lavaredo' which Jeremy said would take around 3 hours.
6 hours later, after a spectacularly scenic hike, we managed to make it back to our car in one piece and drive onto our Airbnb.
So today we were still in Cortina. Barry and I took a break to rest our muscles and spent a day just meandering through the picturesque wee 'Austrian/Italian' town and I managed to catch up on some work. Jeremy on the otherhand, like the machine he is, went ahead and hired a bike again for another epic ride on his own.
So here are a few photos take since my last post in Trento...
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| Pretty flowers just for you Bernie |
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| Apple strudel after a hard day on the bikes |
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| Forget me knots in vivid blue on the dolomites |
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| That's a village way back in the distance |
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| View from our Airbnb in Cortina |
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| More pretty flowers on the mountains |
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| Barry and Jeremy (and a few others) on the trails |
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| Almost at the top |
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| Made it! |
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| Ta daa! |
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| Pretty good feeling! |
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| View from our apartment in Moena |
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| Cats for you Lulu |
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| Moena scene |
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| Moena in the background |
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| Apple strudel at one of the rifugios |
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| A baby Donkey! very very cute |
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| Another village along from Moena |
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| Jeremy's Gelato cream thingee |
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| Moena scene |
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| Detail of a window in Moena |
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| This is for you Lynnie, and Marina. Horses at the top of a pass in the mountains |
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| An example of the switch back zigzag roads we navigated through from Moena to Bressanone |
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| Going up the cable car in Bresannone - the longest one in Europe apparently! Some 2200 metres above sea level. |
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| Bazza on the single track |
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| Baz and Jeremy figuring out where we went wrong, where we are, and where we needed to go... |
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| Someone with very long legs I guess |
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| I thought of you Dad - your kind of shop! |
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| Jeremy with 'Tre cime' in the background |
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| View from our apartment in Cortina |
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