Wednesday, 14 September 2011

First World War–Dolomites

Thanks to recommendations from 2 sets of Witherslack friends, we took some time out and went to the top of 2 mountains (via cable car) where  there are open air museums of how the Italians faced the Austrians across the valleys and passes to gain/regain possession of the Dolomite border areas in 1915.  This is the type of territory they were fighting in

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It was fascinating and these were just some of the bunkers and buildings up there that they used

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Then we walked around these “training” climbing walls with more spectacular views – there are just so many here but they are all different

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As you can see, I have not had time to rearrange the blog and its layout yet – maybe if we ever get a rainy day – but at least some of the pictures may be of interest.

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