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08 Austria and Italy – August 20-21, 2008 – Crossing the Alps

2017/06/28
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Lunch Break at Downtown Molveno I

Wednesday, August 20 – From Cortina d’Ampezzo to Barbian Next morning on Wednesday, August 20 we were in no hurry to leave. We soaked in the hot tub and took it slow. With great difficulties we found an obscure road toward our new destination – Bolzano.  Apparently local people very rarely venture out that far outside the city limits.  Lira suggested to look for signs not a distant large city, but a sign to local nearby villages in desired direction.  And that trick worked. We started climbing up to the mountains, and this time I handled small ASTRA engine much better.  The whole trick was to switch to manual shift on steep…

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