A Driving Sort of Day Why Not Italy…Really Why Not Since Italy is a mere 45 minutes from Innsbruck it felt like the right thing to do today. We jumped in the car after breakfast and set forth with our faithful Tom Tom guiding us, sans freeways, to Vipiteno, Italy. A quick description of roads through the Alps: You get one of two different types of roads throughout Germany and Austria when it comes to driving through the mountains. The first type we will call the super-highway. The super highway is exactly what it sounds like, a wide, open road that is as straight as it can possibly be given the huge towering mountains standing in its way. Thanks to superior engineering and infrastructure, these roads often contain huge tunnels, amazing bridges and roads cut
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