2013

Day 60: 4 August, Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée to Lac Long

Hot sunny day with only climbing,from 496 m to 2395 m. We woke up early since we wanted to climb up to Rimplas (1016m) before it got to hot. It was over 500 m quite steep climb. We walked through the village before we started climbing. It was mostly in a forest in the beginning. We walked fast, suddenly we heard a noise in the forest and saw a big wild boar running. We continued walking along a huge red cliffside that was filled with herbs like lavender and fennel. Then we walked along a yellow cliffside. 

Red and yellow cliff sides alomst in Rimpla

We reached Rimplas before the sun reached us. We continued walking along the valley, it was nice really green. 

We walked down a little before we climbed again and after about an hour we reached the next village La Boline. The sun was shining and we were soaking wet of sweat. We were about to sit down on a bench in the shadow when a car stopped and a nice lady asked us if we wanted a lift to St Dalmas. We jumped into the car that had air condition and saved almost an hour of energy for the afternoon. We stayed in St Dalmas for about two hours, shoping food and eating lunch. We met Claudia when we were about to sit down for lunch. she joined us. We had bread and sardines with lemon and basilican and a tomato for lunch. 

Anna,Ýrr and Claudia eating lunch in St Dalmas

We had bought cakes in the bakery for desert, luxury! 

Mmm…

After lunch we took farewell of Claudia for now, she was taking another track to Menton than we were. We also took farewell of the GR5 that was continuing to Nice and entered GR52 that would lead us Menton.  We filled up with water and started climbing and we climbed the whole afternoon in the heat. We walked quite slow and took a view breaks and and let our feet breath. When we after about three hours of climbing came to col de Veillos (2194 m) we were hungry again and ate some bread and cheese before we continued towards Col du Barn. We stopped at Lac Long(2395m) were we found a place for our tent. 

Our home at Lac Long

I (Ýrr) went for a swim in the lake, it was wonderful after this hot and sweaty day. The water was quite warm. We washed ourselves and our cloths before we made dinner. It was a lovely night in a lovely place.

Beautiful view

When it got dark we were already at sleep. 

Day 61: 5 August, Lac Long to Lac Trecolpas

In the middle of our breakfast two sheep dogs surprised and scared us a bit. They came up to the lake and barked at us. We did as we where told and payed them no noticed and they stopped jelling. Soon we where surrounded by thousand sheep’s. the dogs now and than came by us to check up on us.

You have to be careful with this dogs, they protect their sheep’s, so you should stay calm and pay neither the dogs and the sheep’s any attention. The shepherd also pasted by, wonder if the dogs been nice to us.

After some time all the sheep’s had past us and we could finally pack our things and leave. We started climbing, we had to take it slow as we had to cross the sheep’s, and the dogs didn’t really like that. Before the col we passed a nicely formed lake.

We reached the Col du Barn, 2452 m and left all the sheep’s behind us. The climb down was stony but nice with a lot of Alpen Rosen (Rhododendron) and Blueberry plants, unfortunately with out any berries.

We came down to a Vacherie and continued on a road up to the Col de Salese, we ate some lunch there.

A lunch guest

We continued following the road down a bit but soon the path went in to the forest. In an hour or so we reached a parking place.

As we try to avoid walking on roads we took a lift with an old couple on their holliday, down to Boreon. An active place where you can see some wolfs in a park. We had a some lemonade and chaired a plate of French frieze.

We where bit of track but we soon found GR52 again and continued up to a lake. On the way we meet a lot of day walkers. It was a popular area. It had become very hot so we took it slow and had some breaks.

The lake, Lac Trecolpas, was small but really nice with a tiny island. We did our evening routines, made some couscous with curry in the evening sun.

There was two other groups that was staying at the lake, one family and one big group of friends. They stayed at the other side of the lake so we still had a calm evening by our selves.

Day 62: 6 August, Lac de Trècolpaz to Lac Nire

I (Ýrr) went outside in the middle of the night, it was wonderful, the sky was full of stars and I could see the Milky way over my head. Some stars where moving so I could make some wishes, then I went back to sleep. We started the morning by climbing up to Pas des Ladres (2448 m).

Group picture at Pas des Ladres with Lac Trècolpaz in the back

 Then we walked down to la Madone de Fenestre (1903 m), there was a refuge, a pilgrim church, a souvenir shop and a fromageri. We bought a very small souvenir and a cake in the souvenir shop and of course we bought some cheese in the fromageri. 

Lovely cheese in the fromageri

The cheese tasted really good! We continued by climbing up to Pas du Mont-Colomb (2548 m) it was a little difficult since it was mostly on rocks, specially when we got closer to the top. 

Stony way to the top

We sat down for lunch before we climbed the last part. It was steep in the end, the track was zigzagging to the top. It was really steep down on the other side, we had to use feet and hands to climb down. A nice and happy group with french people were sitting on the trail eating lunch, they moved to let us pass, we talked to them a little before we continued down. I took a picture of them, I thought they looked like birds on a cliff. 

French birds eating lunch and the gap from were we came in the behind

Our plan was to stay at Refuge de Nice, we were longing for a good meal with a lot of food! We had also been told that the weather was getting worse. But we were not welcome at the refuge, it was full. We could not buy food either. We had a soda and a blueberry pie before we continued for about half an hour to Lac Nire. We found a small spot between rocks were we could put up our tent. I went for a swim in the lake, it was refreshing, I just love to swim in those mountain lakes after a sweaty day of hiking. 

Lac Nire

The group ”birds” we had met earlier passed by, they were also looking for a place to camp in the neighbourhood. We had cous cous for the third day in a row. This time with tomato sauce and smoked sausage. The big meal would have to wait to another day. We sat out in the evening sun and looked at the chamoix walk by and eat. 

Our tent and a Charmoix in the behind

We were quite tired and went into the tent before the sun went down.

Day 63: 7 August, Lac Nire to Sospel

A day that started with a climb up to all most 2700 and ended at 400. 

The night had been very windy that have kept us both awake half the night. Not much rain or thunder which some had told us their wood be. So the tent was rather dry when we packed it.

Before starting climbing we past some other lakes. We also pasted several other hikers that had slept in tents. We talked to one couple about the windy night. They had  no wind shield as we had managed to find between the rocks.

We continued up and it was very stony, not much of track, more climb between big stones and at some parts even real climbing. 

On our way up (no clear path)

Looking back on our way up

It was still windy but very exciting all the way up to the col Baisse du Basto. As the wind was very strong we didn’t stay long at top. The rough trail continued on the other side and we also crossed some parts with snow even though we started to be very close to the Mediterranean.

We came down to the lake, Lac du Basto. We had a break and ate some cheese and bread. It started to rain. 

Valee des Merveilles

We continued upwards up to the Baisse du Valmasque with a great view down to the beautiful rugged valley, Valee des Merveilles.

The valley is a archaeological protected area, with a lot of historical rock carvings. Some we could see from the path but most of them you need to follow a guide to see. The rocks are very colourful and glacially polished.

The valley where well visited, but not to crowded as the weather was unstable.

We reached the refuge Merveilles, had something to eat. We decided to continue even though this was the end of this etap. We had an idea to try to cash up with Claudia in Sospel and that meant at least another 4-5 hours walk and some hitch hiking in the end, as Sospel was about 31 km away.

We started with a climb and before reaching the col, Pas de Diable, we past some lakes. The view on the other side was magnificent and we could almost see the whole path we had in front of us. It didn’t look that far but you easily get tricked about distance and time in the mountain.

We continued and had a really nice walk with great views, all though a bit tiring as we been walking quite a lot that day. 

We reached Pointe des Trois Communes, an old militarily area. Soon after we pasted a parking with a few cars. Our hopes was not big to find any one going to Sospel. Our second plan was to go to a nearby refuge.

But luckily, the first car stopped and was going to Menton so they would pass Sospel. It was  a nice couple with their son, who spoke English so we had a nice talk with him on the ride down.

Half the way down the car had a flat tire, the equptment in the car wasn’t good enough but with some help from a passing car we could continue after a while. 

Around 19.30 we arrived in Sospel. We found the gite and Claudia, unfortunately we where to late for the dinner but the town had plenty of places we could eat at. We found a really nice restaurant, had some grilled beef with French fries. 

Sospel

Back at gite it was all ready bed time.

Day 64: 8 August Sospel to Menton

We were about to do our last etappe of the Gr 52 and we were doimg it together with Claudia. We were going for a swim in the Mediterranean sea after two months walk!  It was cloudy. We started walking out of the village but after about 10 minuets we realised we had walked in the wrong direction. It stared raining and the sky was really dark. We walked back and found a roof for protection while putting on some rain clothes. Now it really started to rain and to thunder. 

Claudia doing the rain dance 

We stayed under the roof for about half an hour then we decided not to walk. The sky was black and thunder is really dangerous in the mountains. We decided to take the bus to Menton. We caught it at 10 o’clock and were in Menton about half an hour later. Claudia had booked a room in a cheep hotel close to the beach for two nights. We went there and asked for the possibility to put in two more persons in the room. It was possible even if the room was tiny, but we don’t need so much space, we are used to our 4 square meters tent. We took a swim in the ocean and did some shopping. 

Swimming in the Mediterranean sea

We didn’t want to wear our hiking cloths in Menton, we looked at basically all dresses in Menton before we decided to buy the same dress! At least could decide on taking different colours. 

Miss red and miss grey

Claudia walked up to a woman that she thought looked local and asked for a nice restaurant and got recommended an Italian restaurant. We went to the grocery store and bought some breakfast, we met the nice woman that we had hitchhiked with two days ago (on our flat tire trip). We went to the italian restaurant in the evening and ate delicious seafood and glace four for desert.  

Claudia, Ýrr and Anna in Menton

Calamaris

The stores were still open in the night, we went in some on our way back to the hotel. We went to bed at midnight, we hadn’t gone to bed this late for two months.

Holiday in Menton 

 We stayed in Menton for 5 nights, recharging the batteries. Claudia was with us for four nights before she went home. We really enjoyd her company!

Claudia and Anna walking in Menton

Lunch

Ýrr, Claudia and Anna in new dresses (and some random man that has simular shoes and bag as us)

Picnic at the beach with hikers Claudia, Dominique, Patricia and Ýrr

The beach

Drying our cloths in the sun after vashing them in a public laundry 

Day 65, 13 August, Menton to Tende

Our holiday at the Mediterranean Sea had come to an end. We both was now ready and excited to continue our hike in Italy. We had spent the last night at the camping, we had been placed very nicely, on a calm place with a view over Menton and the sea. 

Yrr packing her last things at the camping

We went to the post office and picked up our parcel and to send home some things we had bought in Menton, some nice dresses, shoes and things we did not need on our hike. 

A last swim before we took the bus up to Tende. Our idea was to walk from there to join the GTA in Italy. Again the bus ride only cost us 1.5 euro, a ride for more than one hour

Tende was a really nice mountain village close to the Italian border, at around 1100 meters. Before walking to the campsite we bought some food, a map and had a last Monaco (a nice beer drink) in France.

Tende

It started to rain a little bit when we came to the camping. We made dinner outside of the showers as there was a roof. Not the nice’s place but it was dry and wind free. 

Cooking dinner

Dinner

We made so call ”heavy food”, food we cook when we don’t have to carry it as it weigh to much. Lentils with sausages with fresh salad. It tasted really delicious. We drank red wine from Cote Rhone with it. 

We had our dessert at the tent, nice Tiramisu. As it still was early we took a walk in to the village and sat down for a glass of red wine at sport bar, but we should have ordered something else, the wine was really bad.

Tende

After a while we turned back to the tent and went inside to make some planing and read. Outside the tent it was still busy but soon we both where sleeping.

Day 66: 14 August, Tende to Limonetti

We walked to Italy by first following the GR 52 A to Col de Tende, a spot where the GTA was supposed to connect concerning to the guidebook and to our map. In the morning we climbed up in the heat, the sun was shining but we saw some clouds. It was a nice climb with a lot of butterflies and some herbs. 

Looking down at Tende

After about three hours we came to a ruin from a castle. The weather started to change, it got a lot colder and windier. We continued walking along the mountainside, we walked toward another castle, the weather was really dramatic, heavy dark clouds and some sun. 

Walking along the moutainside and looking at the castle under the clouds

The castle

The castle ruin

The castle ruin was quite big, we walked through it and continued to Col de Tende, the boarder to Italy. Here we had some trouble, we could not find the GTA track, there was no sign at the col. We only had a french map that ended at the boarder to Italy that only showed a very small part of the GTA. And we had the guide book. Probably some changes have been done since the book and the map was published. There was no track going down the valley from Col de Tende. There was an unmarked trail going in the right direction and we decided to follow it. When we came down we found the marks. The trail seemed to go down somewhere closer to the castle. We were happy to find the red and white marks. We continued down the valley, stopped to have some lunch and it started raining. We putted on our rain cloths and by the time we came to Limonetti it was raining pretty much. We walked to a small store and asked the man for the rifuge and found out there was no such thing anymore in the village. But there was an hotel in Edelweiss About 1,5 km away. He called them, we got a small flat in Limonetti and then the lady from the hotel picked us up for dinner at seven o’clock and drove us back when we were done. We wanted to cook our own food, but were not allowed to, we found it very strange since there was a kitchen in the flat. The food was quite good and the flat was ok, with two rooms, but we didn’t need the comfort and it was expensive compare to what we were used to. There was a nice little grocery store in the village where we bought some pasta and olive oil for upcoming days. 

Day 67: 15 August, Limonetto to Palanfre

15th of August is a holiday in Italy and we where warned that it might be crowded in the refuges as it is a popular day to hike. But when we woke up the weather was still a bit unstable, no rain but foggy so we where not so worried. Before leaving we dried the tent, we only had about five hours walk so we could have a slow morning. 

At ten we where ready to leave. It was less foggy but as soon as we came up a little bit we start walking in the clouds, it was a bit moister.

The climbed up to Passo di ciotto Mieu, 2274. It took us about 2.30 hours, the track was at some parts very step and stony. On some places we walked on grassy lanes with white stones on the side, supposly some old trail marks. The trail up to the pass was very well marked, probably to make sure no one loose the track in heavy fog. 

Looking down at the Passo di ciotto Mieu

Now and then the sun was shining through the clouds. 

On the top it was very windy and we where still in the clouds. We met two Italian runners, and we got some weather report, cloudy but probably not much rain for the next coming days. 

The first part on the other side was very very steep. We all most had to climb down. We took it slow, it became better after a while and we could walk more normal, slippery though as the track was filled with small stones.  

We past a small lake. When we came down to a valley we finally we left the cloud and the sight was much clearer.

Finally under the cloud

On one spot we could see some flat land between some mountain. We realized we had not seen this since we walked in Alsace, like two month ago. Even though we had been down on 0 meter in Menton, we had still been surrounded by mountains. 

Before reaching Palanfre we came in to a forest and we also entering the National park for a short while, Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime.

The village Palanfre was small and very nice, it seemed very popular. We found a fromageria and of course we had to stop and buy some cheese. We bought some old Riccotta, it tasted very nice.

We walked to the Locanda del Parco, they had room for us that we shared with a German. We did our routines and rested before the dinner.

We had a nice dinner. Nice salad, pasta with spinache and a lovely choclate dessert. we had a mice conversation with our room mate. She also followed the GTA track but opposite direction. She gave us some camping tips. 

As all other evening we went to bed really early.

Day 68: 16 August, Palanfrè to Esterate

We ate breakfast at the gite, classical Italian gite breakfast, white bread and jam, doesn’t do much for your stomach. The weather was better than the day before. It was cloudy but quite warm. We started climbing to the top Colle della Garbella 2170m. It was almost 1000m climb. We stopped after about 1,5 hour to eat second breakfast, some bread an cheese.  The weather was really dramatic sometimes we saw nothing, just the fog and sometimes the sun was shining. The clouds had all different kind of grey colours.

 We came to the top and we walked along the mountain top for a while, it was beautiful even if we didn’t have clear view. 

The track turned down to Trinitá (1091m) it was a nice changing landscape with rocks, beech forest and a river. 

Anna taking looking atvthe view, before climbing down

We had lunch a little before we came to Trinetá, it was the end of the etappe. We decided to continue further and find a place to put up a tent. We started by climbing up about 300 m in a forest. Then we walked down on a road to Esterate it was not the most fun walk on this trip, the road became paved and went on for a about an hour. We filled our water bottles in Esterate ( only one big house and a chapel) and continued by going up on the road. It was not easy to find a place to camp since there where a road, houses and dark forest. But finally we found a open place in the forest hidden from the road. Not the best camping spot we’ve had but it was ok and there was a lot of blueberries and some wild strawberries and hallon! Anna picked berries while I made dinner, risotto. We ate before we put up the tent and then we had delicious desert, fresh berries! 

The desert

We went into the tent early to write and read. Suddenly we heard a sound of someone moving around outside the tent. We peaked out of the tent but didn’t see anyone. I mooved quietly out and looked around. Suddenly I saw wild boars just a couple of meters away. I went back into the tent and we started talking loud to scare them away. We succeeded and slept like babies the whole night. 

The tent

Day 69: 17 August, Esterate to CAI bivaccio Pianodel Praiet

The tent was soaking wet when we woke up, not from rain, moister from the night. Sometimes we are lucky to have early sun that quickly drys our tent, but not this morning, we where too deep down in the valley so the sun wouldn’t rich us for a long time. We had to pack down it as it was and try to dry it later.

Looking out over the three tops

We left and started, first following the path upwards in the forest and turning down again after a while. The track was really bad on some places, sharp metal sticks (armeringsjärn in Swedish) was sticking up from the ground, remains from old support of the track. They where hard to see so you really had to walk carefully to avoid them. Further down you could see that they had started to renovate the trail. 

The last part before entering the valley was quite steep. We followed a stream up to a restaurant, campsite and refuge. A quite popular place as you could reach it with a car. We manage to buy some salt from a sweet girl in the restaurant. We ate our lunch and continued our walk up into a valley.

Walking in the valley

It was the time of the day when it is the hottest, we walked slowly until we reached the Rifugio Soria-Ellena. Down below the refuge there is a C.A.I bivaccio, we decided to stay there. It was very simple with six beds. On the wall we could read that it was over hundred years old. 

A view from the bivaccio, a trail to Colle Finnestra and the French border, not far from where we have walked just a couple of weeks ago, nice feeling!

We washed ourselves and our clothes in the cold stream. It was to early to make dinner so we went up to the Rifugio and had some wine. It was a really nice and friendly place. 

Our clothes hanging to dry outside of the bivaccio

We made dinner outside of the shelter, rise with vegetable and coconut milk and drank up the wine we brought with us from the Rifugio. 

Our plan was to set up our tent outside of the shelter but as we had forgot all about drying the tent during the day we had to sleep inside the shelter. 

Day 70: 18 August, CAI bivaccio Pianodel Praiet to Rifugio Morelli-Buzzi

We had breakfast on the bench outside ”our” house, müsli and milk, coffee and tea. It was a beautiful morning, the sun was shining, even if it hadn’t reached us yet. It took us about two hours to climb up to the top, Colle di Fenestrelle (2463 m). The view was stunning in all directions. It was hot and we were sweaty when we came to the top.

Beautiful morning

Climbing to the top

At the top, Colle de Fenestrelle

We stayed at the top for a while enjoyed and ate a second breakfast, some bread and sausage.

Group picture at Colle di Fernestrelle

We passed some snow at the top before we started going down on a quite steep and rocky path.

Walking on snow at the top before going down

On our way down

After about an hour we came down to a flat area with grass and some big rocks. We stopped for lunch and to dry our tent. The sun was shining. We sat on the grass for quite a long time talking ( we can still find things to talk about) before we continued. We passed the lake and when we were about to do our second climb of the day to Colle del Ciapos (2526 m) we passed a small group of Italians having a picnic. They had a bottle of wine but no opener. They asked us if we had one, of course we had a wine bottle opener, I started to dig deep into my backpack and they offered us some really delicious pastries. We propably looked really happy becouse they decided to give us a small bag with pastries. We ate them about 1,5 hour later when we reached the top. Happiness! The weather changed, clouds came from different directions and it was cloudy when we were at the top. We started to walk down, our plan was to camp somewhere farther down in the valley. After about half an hour we came to the rifugio Morelli-Buzzi (2351 m) It was raining a little, we stopped at the rifugio to have a drink, there was a lot of bucketins outside the rifugio. 

Buketins 

Suddenly the valley was filled with fog. We decided to stay at the rifugio. We made pasta pesto for dinner and enjyed the company of the bucketins.

Day 71: 19 August, Morelli-Buzzi to Lago Valscura

It was a sunny morning, a promising weather! We left the refuge around 9. We walked down for two hours. At first it was very rocky and rough.

We past a lake, Lagarot di Lourousa on the way, from there there is a path leading up to a bivaccio, S. Varrone, from a distance it really looked nice and a pity it was to early for us to stop for the day.

Further down we walked in the forest, it was steep but still very easy walk down as the zigzag lane was very wide. 

We reached the spa-resort, Terme de Valdieri. We found a tiny grocery shop, run by a sweet lady. We bought pasta, bacon, tomato sauce, cheese, chocolate and wine. We where so happy as we didn’t have much nice food left. 

Lightweight wine!

We ate our lunch and rested for a whole, we only had a few hours walk to our planed destination. 

We followed a tiny road, tiny ascending, it was hot so we walked slowly. At a small waterfall we wet our heads to cool down. It was nice.

We continued and reached flat area, Piano de Valasco, popular place. Suddenly the weather changed drastically, it got windy and big drops of rain started to fall. We found a big stone that we could hide under. Soon it was raining very heavily and it also started to thunder. We where lucky to have found a shelter.

Piano di Valesco, just before the weather change

Yrr in our shelter

As sudden as it started it ended. We continued and soon we left the valley and climbed upwards. For a while we walked in a cloud, sometimes we didn’t see much, but as the track was very clear we continued. The last part up to the lake was very nice zigzag stony path, the fog/cloud gave it a special feeling. 

We had to walk through a tunnel at one place

When we reached the lake the sky was blue again, but it was a bit chilly and windy. We found a locked bivaccio. We set up the tent outside to get some wind protection. We made lovely dinner with the food we bought down in the valley and drank some white wine with it.

Yrr outside of our tent making dinner

The cold evening forced us to go early to bed but before I took some pinhole images of the surroundings.

Day 72: 20 August, Lago di Valscura to St Anna

We really didn’t think this was going to be a wonderful day, but it was. It was really cold and cloudy when we woke up. We had a hard time getting out of our warm sleeping bags and getting out of the tent. 

Anna hiding from the cold wind

We were freezing when we finally started walking. We walked fast to get warm. It took us about half an hour to climb up to the top Coletto di Valskura 2520 m. By the time we came up, the sun had started shining and the sky was turning blue.

Blue sky and a beautiful view

We continued down to the lake Lago Malivern and had a little break before we continued down to the rifugio Malivern 1839 m. It was a ugly building that really looked mal place in the landscape. We just finished our map and needed a new one. Luckily we could buy it in the rifugio from the lovely girl that worked there. We sat down outside and ate some lunch before we started the second climb of the day up to Passo de Orginals 2600 m. It was a quite easy  zigzag climb that took us less than 2 hours. 

We shared a Snickers at the top and relaxed for a while before walked down to a road. 

We had a second lunch in the grass before we did a short climb to Colle della Lombarda 2351m. We walked on the top of the mountain for almost an hour on the boarder between France and Italy. It was beautiful!  

The sky was blue and great view in all directions. We met a lonely chimoax on the way. 

We ended the day by walking down to St Anna, a strange place with a hotel, a bar a religious souvenir shop  and a pilgrim church. 

Anna walking down to st Anna

The religious symbols started already on the way down and they where all over. I forced Anna to stand next to a sculpture of her name sister St Anna, for a picture.

There were possibilities to put up a tent for free and we did. We had dinner at the hotel/ gite. We were hungry and tired after a long day, the soup, the meat, the apfelstrudel and the red wine tasted good. When we walked back to the tent we noticed the full moon. It was hiding behind the mountain but it mooved really fast and lightened up the sky.

Full moon

 It was really cold, we hurried into our sleeping-bags and did some reading before we fell asleep (before 10 o’clock).  

Day 73: 21 August, Sant Anna di Vinadio to Bagni di Vinadio

We woke up by the sound of people walking around praying. it felt a bit scary!

Early morning

We had short day walk in front of us so we took it slow. We had breakfast in the tent as it was very cold. You could feel that the summer is about to end, at least up in the mountains.

It felt nice to leave Sant Anna, a little bit to religious atmosphere for our taste. The walk was nice and easy up to the Pass de Bravaria (2311 meter).

Yrr resting

On our way we picked and ate a lot of blueberries, wild strawberries and raspberries.

We arrived to Bagni di Vinadio early in the afternoon. We decided to stay at the camping. We took a shower, finally warm, at least 2 min for Anna and 30 second for Yrr.

We sat outside of our tent writing and talking. It was nice to be a bit lacy for a while.

Around 18 we went in to the village to find a place to eat, it was a bit to early, italians eat around 19.30 and it is common in the mountains that the restaurant have fixed hour for dinner. We found three restaurants, neither of them looked very nice, some even looked a bit dirty. We took a drink at a the bar Nasi that also runs the camping. Yrr got a new polette  for the shower.

As it still was early we walked to search for a restaurant at the close by neighbor village, Strepeis. Luckily we found one really nice place,  that served us a delicious meal; pasta with mushrooms, roast beef with mushroom and zucchini and for dessert we had some creme caramel.  We drank a really nice wine with it.

The nice wine

We walked happily back to our tent. At the camping it was still quite busy but we where soon sleeping anyway.