I Have A Wart That Bleeds A Lot

walking holiday

The holiday goes back a few weeks, the first memories fade. time to perpetuate the remaining moments before everything is in the mist.

rough outline, we were 3 weeks hiking on the Alps (Ziller and Senales), Lake Garda and Chinque in Terre. A stylish three-piece offers a red thread on then! Or free after Captain Bluebear: The Three Lives of the Wanderers.

As always there to answer quiz questions (the first is the same: Was there ever quiz J )

Life 1: In the fog world

arrival in the Alps. The weather is up, the first time the new hiking boots ("If you do not buy decent boots, we do not even hike," Quiz Question 1: Who said that) and with too much luggage we went from Schlegeisstausee up to the Fitzerjoch. Probably the easiest trip of the holiday - it was only us not like it. Well, we would have already known that our food would have been enough mitgezerrten for more than four days ... The pictures clearly show, the weather was severe. On the second day we are on 2500, just come under one of the glaciers, in a nasty storm and in the course of 4 hours, completely soaked. Barbara's boots have almost taken a week to dry, the backpack was probably a kilo heavier there than at the start of the tour and even in the sealed plastic pants hardly a dry spot (see Figure 2). A dream in white, so to speak: only fog. Up, down. Left, right. Quiz Question 2: What animals are shown in Figure 4. And immediately afterwards: Lives in a witch: Question 3 the tiny, tranquil house in the woods?

After all the smuggling of too much clothing and food (it is rumored, that would be a beginner's mistake), the question remains of the doctrine: 1) What you do not need, leave at home. 2) If you think about it, if you need it, you do not need it. 3) You need a cool hat (This overrides rule 3 rules 1 and 2). A wanderer without a cool hat is nothing. Oh, and another thing: 4) Country Poles look silly, but only for Nordic walkers. Who has the mountain which is a hero and is probably more relaxed.

Life 2: Living on the lake

learned in the mist, refined in the sun. Hiking in the Fog has an advantage: It is quite at ease when it comes to steep slopes. You never see how steep it is. Due to the crest Valdritta peak in the solid it is different. A clear view for miles away. And steep it is. A bit similar to the hiking here is the evolution from four to two legs. With all the rock fours, one moves forward snail-like, until you learn slowly walk and hops in the end like a gazelle over stones (jaja!)

From Lake Garda you can go so completely weird cultural things like wandering around in Venice and find a pizzeria, the 'ne Margaritha then but for sold only 4.5 € (I always thought Venice stinks, stood at the time. Not so.) Or in Verona to visit the singing tons (the costs but also rich entrance). I think we are dealing with only two exceptions made every day to eat pizza, but I digress.

Oh yeah, here among us logisticians: The best moment was of course the packet boat below. I see the guys on the horizon (which is not in Venice sooo mad far away) to turn their boat around the corner, all packages and relevant even to my Great: Look, here comes UPS. And are hardly se us over when you see UPS logo datt. Is datt non astray?

Life 3: In America

America in Italy. Or very close, so that the transition does not notice. Was San Francisco (but I may tell a farce from the past) still inhabited by many Italians, so it's snowing in exchange to have probably left the Terre Chinque the Americans. On the trails we speak English, so American. Matter of course. Barb still says here does it feel like in SF and a few minutes later turn to the first tourist, nem San Francisco shirt around the corner (really true, I swear!).

What you can read in any guide: the Chinque Terre (Unesco World Heritage Site, it are all proud), five towns that are poorly accessible by car (funny, it also are all proud?) . At some point, but the tracks and so then what a lot of tourists. The time of lonely olive and Weingenießerei was over. From now on, walks with admission (!) Bring higher yields. The area is really picturesque, of all small terrace walls (in the guide was, the news about the construction of the walls is lost, so there is the photo of ... well ... building a wall). Facing the Mediterranean there are something like alpine Paths and an impressive vegetation (olives, lime, palm trees, figs, chestnuts, wine and olives).