The Snow Race that almost did me in.
Off we went to Gardasee (in northern Italy) this weekend. Kera was really freaking out because of the snow and I was losing it because of various things (my German drivers test, my Deutsch proficiency test and the fact I'm going to have a hell of a time finding a job here). So, we needed to get out of town for the weekend.
Garda is a big, big lake surrounded by beautiful, rocky mountains. They also have somewhere in the thousands of kilometers of trail (paved and single or doubletrack). There are also gobs of places to road ride.
Well, seems the rest of the world had similar ideas too. It, in theory, takes about 3.5 hours to get down there. It took us 6 on Sat. morning to accomplish same. So, we were frazzled and decided to have a bottle of local wine with lunch. We then did the drunk sex thing and lazed around a bit. Then we went out for a short-ish ride down the mountain, around a couple of the local towns and then back up the mountain to where we were staying (Atlantic Club Hotel).
The plan was to go out this morning for another ride. Unfortunately, the temp. had dropped maybe 20 degrees and the wind was gusting in the 50 mph range. We decided to eat breakfast and head back toward Mnich. On the way we stopped in Bozen/Balzano and wandered around. No traffic and no problems and we were home in less time than it took us in driving time going down.
Kera's parents are coming to visit in late April and we're all heading down to Garda to play and so that I can race the Garda Fest Marathon (Garda Fest).
I found this quite funny! That is my disclaimer.
iPorn & iTease
That's it for now. Chow!
francesca:
I've wanted to go to Egypt for a long time as well. My mother was just mentioning go there next actually. Probably won't happen for quite a while though. 