Unplanned Alps sept 09

Ash rides the Stelvio Pass. :eek :D :D
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Great stuff :clap:clap

Keep that backscratcher going, I'm enjoying this :bow
 
Thursday 10/09/09 cont

Where was i ?
Ow yes on my way to a hotel.
Apples a plenty at the foot of the Stelvio and now heading for Austria.
come across this large lake with a church sticking up out of the water.:eek
http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A1f4cf...0/**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reschen_Pass
on my way to finding the hotel a nice lady decodes that she would reverse at a junction :eek the end result being me and the GS on our sides.:tears:tears
Another Italian learns some choice English words :augie :( FFS.
These things happen when you are a " global traveler " :augie :D :D.
lucky for me the hotel is only minutes away and a nice chap on a 1200 GS picks the heavy lump up [the bike not me] :pullface
 

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Friday 11/09/09

Another sunny days beacons.
so does stiffness and a open wound to my left shin.
where i had a open fracture and then skin graft that never took.
just what i try to avoid at all costs.
 

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views from my hotel window.
www.seehotel.it very nice :)
60 euro's incl 5 course eve meal and break fast [ham and eggs] Amanda :augie
a stuffed Marmot!! you see these things on the mountain sides.
[i could eat a whole one] :D :D
 

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Friday 11/09/09 cont

sadly i need to take it a tad steady today [for 5 minutes] :blast
out of the hotel and onto the Reschenpass and Austrian alps,
a very low and open pass idea for grass growing.
 

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Friday 11/09/09 cont

half way through the pass mrs garmin 660 sends me left onto another pass.
[could not find a name and back into Switzerland.:)
which was handy as fuel is cheaper in swiss.
 

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Friday 11/09/09 cont

through a couple small towns/villages and onto yet another pass.
Fluelpass another cracker :) very twisty and makes you go faster :blast :augie
note the little house / shack :) must be a tad nippy in the winter.:eek [last picture]
 

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onto Davos / Klosters and through the Vereina tunnel.
on route to Liechenstien.
picture 3 is painted are very clever and then fields of grapevines
 

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Great detail Ash, well done!
Been to Swiz twice and not seen quite all the passes you have - "church in the lake" business was a bit unfortunate, but I can understand it as the scenery is every bit as good as your photos- hope its got betterer - and just get on with the story please!!
 
Brilliant photos and a great report - thanks!
 


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