Alpine trip 2017 - Touring the Dolomites Page

Day Five The weather seemed marginally better, so we set out on SS48, up & over to Misurina, which has a lake, hotels & allegedly, a view of the Drei Zinnen. We stopped & fought our way through a coach-load of Lotharingians for coffees but the hills did not come out. We thought to give them a chance, so waited by the lake at Lago Antorno, part-way up the Drei Zinnen toll road before we had to pay & read our books for an hour but they never came out. So, we drove down to Auronzo for.a snack lunch of Crèpes & on round the Southern side of the Dolomites back to Cortina. It was too soon to pack up, so we went some way on tomorrow’s road & up a steep side turning, labelled by the National Park people & very narrow (passing places) to the Rifugio Ra Stua, where we had more coffee & a chat to the family of a half-Italian, who has done an 2nd Archaeology degree, with an English wife & 9 month little boy. They had lived in London but now, in Milan & he has his own 1st dig of some Etruscan stuff, funded by Americans. He also has inherited his father’s farm, lucky sod. We went down & on back to the lake at Lago Antorno. This time 1.5 Zinnen came out eventually & we went back over the top on SS48 again. Because we saw so much, the day was a success d’estimé.