(written by Lyn)
Small stop at an Internet cafe to do our blog and then we were off to further explore this cool country. Beautiful clear blue skies, no wind but with still a crispness in the air. So far we'd not seen any snow yet it certainly felt cold enough for it.
Temperature gauge on our car showed us starting off at +7 degrees and slowly dropping as we headed north.
Tomtom, our GPS became our companion and good source to vent our frustration on. Especially when we got to Trento and stupid Tomtom told us to take the second exit which unfortunately put us BACK on the Autostrade that we'd just come off, in the opposite direction. Naughty Tomtom!!! The next offramp?? 20kms away!!
Finally getting in the right direction we spent most of the day driving hoping to make it to at least Belluno, which we did at 5pm.
We found a cute B&B there but the host was not very happy to see us, as he hadn't warmed our room and wanted to charge us double the price for one night. Thanks, but no thanks, and we continued to Cortina, but this did mean we would be getting there quite late to be finding a room.
6.30pm and the first two hotels in Cortina ... No vacancy. Next ... had room but at $680 (NZ) per night??
Temperature gauge now? -1 degrees, not the time to be spending the night in the car. Next place was perfect, affordable, warm and available with one room left. 3 nights here, yay!! Now we just need some snow with it only being on the mountains as we arrived. After all it is now -3 degrees!!!
Small stop at an Internet cafe to do our blog and then we were off to further explore this cool country. Beautiful clear blue skies, no wind but with still a crispness in the air. So far we'd not seen any snow yet it certainly felt cold enough for it.
Temperature gauge on our car showed us starting off at +7 degrees and slowly dropping as we headed north.
Tomtom, our GPS became our companion and good source to vent our frustration on. Especially when we got to Trento and stupid Tomtom told us to take the second exit which unfortunately put us BACK on the Autostrade that we'd just come off, in the opposite direction. Naughty Tomtom!!! The next offramp?? 20kms away!!
Finally getting in the right direction we spent most of the day driving hoping to make it to at least Belluno, which we did at 5pm.
We found a cute B&B there but the host was not very happy to see us, as he hadn't warmed our room and wanted to charge us double the price for one night. Thanks, but no thanks, and we continued to Cortina, but this did mean we would be getting there quite late to be finding a room.
6.30pm and the first two hotels in Cortina ... No vacancy. Next ... had room but at $680 (NZ) per night??
Temperature gauge now? -1 degrees, not the time to be spending the night in the car. Next place was perfect, affordable, warm and available with one room left. 3 nights here, yay!! Now we just need some snow with it only being on the mountains as we arrived. After all it is now -3 degrees!!!
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