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ITALY: Johann told us they would arrive at 8:20am at Verona Airport so we got up and left Marco Polo at 4am for the long drive to Italy. Beautiful passing Innsbruck again and driving the Brenner Pass (beautiful but very busy with traffic going to Italy’s coast and lots of big trucks that go very fast). We saw castles everywhere next to the road on hills and the most beautiful mountains. We arrived at Verona Airport at 9am and had to wait another hour for Johann and Hilda (check the travel agent next time Johann!). It was great to see them again after their last visit in South Africa in November 2000. It took us the best of the rest of the day to get to the Golf Hotel in the Karerpass,
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Johann told us they would arrive at 8:20am at Verona Airport so we got up and left Marco Polo at 4am for the long drive to Italy. Beautiful passing Innsbruck again and driving the Brenner Pass (beautiful but very busy with traffic going to Italy’s coast and lots of big trucks that go very fast). We saw castles everywhere next to the road on hills and the most beautiful mountains.
We arrived at Verona Airport at 9am and had to wait another hour for Johann and Hilda (check the travel agent next time Johann!). It was great to see them again after their last visit in South Africa in November 2000.
It took us the best of the rest of the day to get to the Golf Hotel in the Karerpass, Costalunga, where we stayed for six days. It was very warm in the car and the nicest was having a picnic in the middle of Italy with bread, salami, olives, fruit juice, etc. In the Karerpass we came across the bluest lake, the Karersee. Amazing light water, and we took so many photos there.
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