One of Evy's cousin's, Lorenzo (a police officer), picked us up this morning to take us on a tour for the day. We later found out that the poor guy had just come off an all night shift when he met us so he must have been exhausted. Despite this, Lorenzo was talkative and animated and was able to tell us a huge amount about the places and things that we were seeing on the way. Heading North on the toll highway, we passed though a series of tunnels as we climbed through the mountains, eventually seeing snow off to the side of the road. Near Italy's Northern border, we pass through the ski town of Tarvisio. The lifts had stopped running, but we got a good view of the huge Olympic ski jump near the
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