passo dello stelvio (stilfserjoch) and on into Switzerland - Shaken, not Stirred? I guess there are other easier ways to get from Italy to Switzerland, and I hadn’t really mentioned these to Jen. She didn’t seem to mind the idea of going over the Stilvio Pass. I would have been keener myself if it wasn’t for the rain….. The Stelvio pass? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelvio_Pass It is the second highest (just) mountain pass in the alps - over 2700m, made up of 48 hairpin bends. I had quickly looked at some motorcyclist blogs about the pass, and as with Nürburgring you kind of wish you didn’t. If you don’t like tight hair pin bends on extremely narrow roads on near vertical slopes don’t go. If you like that sort of thing and looking at squads of expensive Italian
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