Back home in Mt Gambier, the big peak of my childhood!

From there to here…what a trip!

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Bye bye Verona

Left the girls at 8 am taxi to Verona aeroporto to Gatwick.

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Switzerland in the distance

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Bus from Gatwick to Heathrow

Lovely leisurely pace after Italy

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Heathrow phone charging pole

Culture shock after being on the road in the mountains. I’ll have been on the go for 40 hours by the time I get to Melbourne Sunday morning at 0500! It’s Friday night 2100 hours now, boarding in an hour. I’ll post a few summary comments once home.

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Passegiatte in Verona with the obligatory gelati

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Last night for me, in Verona, home tomorrow but first to London Gatwick, then to Heathrow from Verona

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How do they do it?

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Vistas abound

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This strange elderly woman Moocher about the car park until late at night…what is her story?

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Lost in translation

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Great family set up – all still in their lederhosen

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Next morning on departure

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Great find Lizzie

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Well am See in the distance for tomorrow

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Can’t stop shooting

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Can’t you tell?

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Happy boy!

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Happy girl

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Our stay for the night

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Off they go by the hundreds

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Engineers delight

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A long way down from our overnight accommodation – it costs €35 to drive on the road

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Russian Ural motorcycle from Czechoslovakia

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The inner sanctum

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Bikers corner, a shrine to motor cycling the Grossglockner

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Down and down it goes

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Good test of driver concentration

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Some road this one

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The peak, highest mountain in Austria

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Pretty ghastly facilities from which to peer into the mountains

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Grossglockner peak

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Beautiful Austin Healey 3000

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The way ahead

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Up close and personal en route to Grossglockner Alpine Road

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Last morning at Lake Misurina

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Back to the hotel and intrepid Vespa riders

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And through a group of cyclists on a break

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Back to lovely forest trails

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Left my trusty (found) walking stick to another walker

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Rest stop the Italian way

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On the way down

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Look what I found

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As high as I can be

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View from a rest stop

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Today I climbed into the mountains above Lake Misurina, 1500 feet up!

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Tempting fate right beneath our balcony

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A grand hotel on the lake

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Lago de Misurina

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Our wonderful accommodation

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Is this taking branding a tad too far?

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And bikes of course – mostly German

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And back to Misurina

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Now for a plummet back to the car

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As we leave the refugio

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Eight am

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Lizzie out there before dawn

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Sunrise

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Sunrise this morning

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Evening falls in the mountains

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Always hitting the books Connie

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All keeping an eye on us as we dine

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Extreme dining

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Who needs bright and sunny?

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Memorial to soldiers who died up here in WWI

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