With my panniers splitting we at least had some motivation to get off our butts and head the 10kms into Bolzano on the way looking like a couple of idiots trying to work out how to use the on board ticketing system
Getting out at the last stop the central station at least gave us a point from which we'd be unlikely to get lost as we walked around the picturesque old town section along narrow alleyways.
It was interesting to see Bolzano's original heritage with language and food being much closer to German origin than Italian. In fact if you check out Bolzano's history you'll see that it was annexed from the Austria Hungarian Empire as a playback to the Italians for their entry into WW1 on the side of the Allies - this then meant that some 300,000 Gerrmans were forced to undertake what they referred to as Italianization - today you can see the Gerrnan culture coming to the fore.
With new panniers bought and The 5,000 year old iceman ((Bolzano's main attraction) having a siesta it was back to our hotel to lounge around our 5th floor swimming pool taking in the magnificent mountain views while wondering how the tell we were going to cycle out !
No comments:
Post a Comment