Day five started with our backpacks ready first thing in the morning, our tent cleaned and closed for the other travellers to come and enjoy a good night sleep and us all heading to the reception/supermarket to grab a sandwich, a (disgusting) vending machine coffee and the timetable for the bus which will save us […]
Rocky roads (2)
A shuttle bus was appointed at 11 sharp to pick us up from Val Fiscalina after our descent from Rifugio Zsigmondy and lead us to Lake Braies. Because we were the first to descend, we were just in time for a strudel and a coffee. Lake Braies is the commercial-hello-tourists lake. Take your flip-flops, get […]
Rocky roads (1)
Almost three years ago an idea popped into our minds: what if we take over the mountains! Well, of course, where do you want to start? Let’s start with the Mont Blanc! Seems logic for a bunch of non-mountaineers with no prior knowledge and no legs for this adventure. Fast forward some twelve months, we […]
Each to their own
When I was a child playing outside all day long with dozens of other kids in front of our concrete buildings, there were times when an adult, probably crazed by our continuous noise, was coming out on their balcony and was just yelling at us all: “ia, fiecare la scara lui!” – I am not […]
Just smile and sing, Kowalski, just smile and sing!
Suspicion and raised thick dark eyebrows. Supermarkets, bike and walking paths, small alleys, clothing stores – someone was either muttering a song, singing it out loud, smiling when passing by, greeting with a hello. For months my face was frozen. Do I know you, you cheeky little stranger?! They’re all mad here, said the Cheshire […]