There we were enjoying the hiking in the meadows every day on the Alpi de Suisi plateau, with our cable car pass, with occasional stops for coffee and strudel at immaculate mountain huts
– and thinking what a great place it would be for a winter snow holiday. And look what happened – same hut 3 days later!!
Had done some great walks on the plateau for 2 days in the sunshine with superb views of the meadows and surrounding mountains
and then we had a severe thunderstorm one night, rain all day (another blog on visit to Otzi – the Iceman in Bolzano) and what we thought was rain all night (another blog to see the joys of camping in the not so good weather) – until we got up and found snow on the tent and car!! We then took our cable car up to the plateau in a snow storm and spent a wonderful morning walking around , in our wet and thermal gear, in the ever deepening snow, before the roads got cleared and the trees lost their covering.
The next day we returned to blue skies and found out what spectacular place it is for winter sports and views – compare and contrast to earlier piccies!
So, feeling we had had pretty good value for our money – a winter and summer holiday combined – we decided tenting in the mountains had passed its sell by date and moved on to the warmer climes of Lake Garda – about 15 degrees to be exact.
Leaving some great memories of a brilliant area – in any weather!
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