http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Trentino Alto Adige , Trento en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:13:10 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:13:10 UTC Yay photos A whole bunch of themAnyways. Monday made my head whirl. First there was a train ride to the ItalySlovenia border which was mostly interesting because of the weather. When I left the hostel it was cloudy and foggy and cold 6 minutes of tunnel later it was blazing hot and sunny on the other side of the mountain without a cloud in sight.Then I changed trains in the border town o http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-316494.html Venice SO COOL Did you know that Venice is made up of 117 islands It makes sense doesn't it that a city famous for its nurmerous canals that those canals carve up the land into islands But I hadn't ever thought of it that way. So every bridge Jan and I walked across was fun because we were crossing over to another island by just walking over a bridge The canals do make Venice a speci http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-295360.html Hi Just a quick note to let you know we are safe in Dro It was really awkward at first haha the first people we met interrogated Ian and Dillon a little bit haha they had to prove they were family by naming like a dozen people in different pictures which is kinda difficult for them haha. Everyone else is great and it turns out some of them were in San Diego over 10 years ago and they had 4 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-294771.html Thursday 19th JuneAnother early start and an efficient packup and wersquore soon en route to the campsite in CarsquoVio. Verona is also not a possibility for a stop as itrsquos too far for Freddiersquos drivers hours but we take a chance on Trento for an hour which actually turns out to be the perfect size for this kind of stop and turns out to be the city of painted walls. Very nic http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-291633.html Easily found a hotel for tonight...phew Had a fantastic lunch of ravioli and gnochi... I can tell Im going to love eating in Italy Walked around the town center a bit went underground to the Tridentum La Citta Sotterranea where archaeological remains of the Roman city can be seen... interesting Visited St. Trento Cathedral then decided to go for a drive and got totally lost for 23 hours in http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-209965.html Our Innkeeper in Salzburg highly recommended Murano Italy so we thought we would see if we wanted to stay there even though it wasn't on our initial itinerary... not that we really have one. But figured we were driving through Innsbruck first so if the weather wasn't too bad would stay there as originally planned.Innsbruck was beautiful but the weather was aweful so drove on. We did see the O http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-206416.html We left Strigno and instead of taking the valley road to Trento we travelled via the mountains to the tiny town of Lausan one of the Austrian strongholds during the wars. Trento is a Roman town founded in 1BC. The annual medieval archery tournament of Palio delle Contrade held between the 8 town segments or contrade was being held in the old town square. People were wearing period costume an http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-201477.html So I went to Switzerland after all and it was lots of fun. Went up a mountain in Luzern with Karin's little sister Maya. It was really beautiful and the weather was quite nice until the day after when it started to hail again. It was fucking crazy. It was falling ice cubes from the sky and the rain was also falling down and Karin had to close les volets and got hit by the ice cubes. The day after http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-185072.html Well I couldn't believe it either The Italians named a part of their mountains after a dodgy British car The Triumph Dolomite. No sooner do I get over that shock than I realise the town I'm in is called Cortina D'Ampezzo I swear I'll find the glass mountains been renamed the Allegro...I finally got to do some climbing today well only a little climbing mostly walking. I've hooked up wit http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-138635.html This day was almost an action replay as the previous. We got up bought some more pizza and juice but traveled to a different lake Lake Molveno. The bus rides out to these lakes provided great scenery there were vineyards and fields of corn everywhere. Lake Molveno was just as pretty if not prettier than Lake Garda with a fantastic backdrop plenty of skydivers and a quaint little village. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-91516.html We woke up and struck up a conversation with Tamara the girl at the reception desk. She was a local but spoke excellent English and had traveled all around NZ. She recommended that we take a trip to Lake Garda about an hour away. We went to a local supermarket and got a couple of massive bits of pizza and some cartons of juice for a good deal and then got a bus out to the lake. It was a warm day http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-91514.html We hadnrsquot sorted out where we were going to stay for the next night or two we had thought about going to Verona so tried to find something there online. We couldnrsquot find anything so ended up deciding on going further North to a place called Trento. A decision I am glad we made. Brendon phoned up and booked us into the hostel there. We checked out of our Venice hotel and trained to Tr http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Trentino-Alto-Adige/Trento/blog-91513.html