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June 2023: The Dolomites I |
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In June we had a walking holiday
in the Italian Dolomites, somewhere we hadn’t been in a number of years. As with our last couple of
foreign holidays we used Inn Travel to arrange this trip. It was a six centre holiday,
where we spent one or two nights as we walked between the hotels. These photos are not in any
particular order, they are intended to give a flavour of our trip.
Our first hotel of the holiday:
Berghotel Zirmerhof. This hotel is ideally situated
to visit the Bletterbach Canyon, UNESCO listed since 2009, is a spectacular
and unique formation in The Alps. |
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It is a legal requirement to
wear head protection whilst in the canyon. |
The canyon walls are usually
vertical or overhung. |
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You hear the occasional rock
fall, hence the hats! |
You enter and exit the canyon
using steep steps. |
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Food is also an Inn Travel
speciality. Here are a couple of desserts that both look good and tasted
delicious! |
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For many years Julie and I have wanted to visit the Ice Man Museum, Bolzano. Found in 1991 melting out of a glacier on the Italian-Austrian border,
Otzi, as he became to be known, was first thought to be the body of a
mountain climber. Forensic science quickly established that the body had been
frozen in the ice for 5300-years! So well preserved was the body, and still possessing all of his
belongings, clothing and equipment, Otzi was immediately established as one
of the most important discoveries dating from that period of human history.
His copper axe, alone, resulted in pushing back the presumed start of the
‘Copper Age’ by over 1000-years. The museum is superb: all of Otzi’s possessions are on display, and Otzi
himself can be seen through a small window in a temperature/humidity
controlled chamber. Photography, other than of this life-sized depiction, is not allowed. I
wonder what the man himself, whatever is true name, would have thought about
his fame. I |
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Looking north from a viewpoint
called Titschenwarte. Bolzano is in the valley on the
left of this image. I |
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We stayed in a number of
delightful villages, as here; Kastelruth and Hotel Cavallino D’Oro. | |
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We saw incredibly beautiful
Alpine meadows and giants benches! | |
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Some of our walks took us to the
towers, of which the Dolomites have many. |
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And we made new friends: Liz and
Alan. Six degrees of separation or not, Liz and Alan, and Julie and I, have
friends in common. It’s a very small world! |
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Cheers! I |
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