A long days travelling but an amazing one, we braved Two mountain passes in the dolomites one of which the mendola pass at 1800+M was incredible the road up the pass was fairly easy with only about 6 hairpins, the way down was way more interesting 15 Hairpins and at one point the road carved into the mountain was bear wide enough for the Van, with small passing places, the old single pole handrail type crash barriers were still in place at some bends with 500M drops!!! No Video and only a few pictures were taken as I was concentrating quite a bit on driving. After the windy roads we decided the best way into Austria was via the motorway, so we jumped on this and climbed our way into the alps proper. Interestingly as the scenery changes so does the housing type, long before we got to the border at the Brenner pass the housing looked very Germanic. As soon as we go to past Brenner the scenery was outstanding and we started to drop into the Valley where Innsbruck is situated. Bee had found a campsite in the huge campers book we got from the hire place, and we located it on the map, turn right off the motorway junction 10 and head for the Stubai valley, the campsite was located between Fulpmes and Tefes the Views outrageous, the shower block brand new, but nothing was open around us, no Gasthaus, no bar! We set up and made some nosh, all the locals were Elderly Austrian’s and at around 18:00 they all departed for the backdoor of the shower block and started drinking beer, schnapps and Ouzo, go figure!
I think it would be very cool to come back here in a car and get up some of the very High Passes.
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