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Tirol Baviera
We have had an occasion not to lose: the twinship of a town next to us with the German Traunstein, of consequence we could not ignore a visit of courtesy to the German friends, that she has allowed us to visit the low one Baviera and, along the road, the magnificent Tirol!
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733 km.
Parties of good morning we try to reach quickly Milan crossing the very bad one highway A4, from her bypass road we pick her up suspender for Lecco and we reach the slope oriental of the lake of Como.
Here we go up again quickly the lake thanks to the government one that it abdicates the panorama but, practically passing all in gallery, brings us quickly first to the alternative for the valtellina and then finally to Chiavenna, where there we stop for doing gasoline and to stretch us a few the legs!
We leave again toward her Switzerland and arrive in the beautiful valley Engandina! We immediately notice that the time is everything anything else other than beautiful, we are going verse of the beautiful ones clouds and the Maloja pass on break it, is absorbed in the snowstorm!
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We cannot release and then we enter in also this surreal landscape: the mountains have disappeared, the road and the lawns they are clean but we am surrounded by the wind that frozen snow brings and that makes to go down the thermometer to the zero! Climbed the 1815 meters of the pass we go down in the most known part in the valley or the centers of Silvaplana and St.Moritz, where soul there is not long live, as the ugly time has made to escape everybody!
To the alternative of Pontresina we look toward Italy and the Bernina but we see only the snowstorm, street, follows then the course of the small Inn (what it will accompany us for the whole vacation) and we try to go down more quickly the possible verse, he/she anchors far him Tirol.
Crossing this beautiful road that unties him among green pastures and dense woods, rigorously clean and orderly (a constant for all the visited nations), we cross small and nice countries as Zuoz, from which you can be taken for the Abula pass (2312 ms.) and Susch where the Fluelapass be taken (2383 ms.); go down anchors up to Scuol where owe us to stop for resting and to take back us from the cold!
Left again we reach shortly the border, absorbed in sharp pains forests and a lot of sawmills; after few kms we notice on our right one road that goes down cutting the coast: from the paper we understand that it is the road that would bring us to the Resia pass already visited in a' other occasion. Without delays we go down to valley and we finally arrive, in the country of Landeck, where we can also consume a typical I have lunch Tirolean!
Now doesn't remain but the whole Tirol to cross following the government 171 now. The beginning is beautiful and flowing but, arrived to Innsbruck, there wait for a congested traffic and some drops of rain! Not could stop us, unwillingly we go out with work of this splendid town and, unfortunately we find a sharp pain rain that will accompany us for the whole 260 kms of trip that they miss us for, Traunstein.
With great work we advance along the 171, congested from the rain and from the due traffic to the extreme proximity of the countries among them, and inside of intend us to us to avoid her to the return! Reaches St. Johann the traffic it lowers and the road leaves the fund valley to cross endless woods in the middle of the fogs!
We are by now next to Germany and we enter without almost realizing of it, in to follow him of woods, streams and galleries until, to to find the indications for Bad Reichenhall, where we realize the change; worn out by the kms of rain we look for the indications for Traunstein that we quickly find, throws therefore toward the fund valley and going out of the dense woods, the green Baviera with his sweets hills, open in front of us!
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90 km.
The time really doesn't accompany us! We have stupendously spent on Saturdays welcomed from the motoclub of Traunstein and from the deputy mayor, later I exchange him customary gifts and a good German breakfast to base of beer and wurster, is devoted there to the visit of the center of the city; the evening we have industriously been accompanied then in a country nearby, where have with pleasure participated in the local party of the beer!
After the whole night of rain we lift there Sunday morning really of bad mood, the programs of the day jump, we cannot see then the lake Chiem and not even to make a beautiful turn on the neighbors and stupendous austro-German alps.
We leave therefore the motorbikes to climb on the pulman of the commune and to go to visit the country native of pope Benedetto XVI before, and a very beautiful strong along the border Austrian, later.
We arrive in the country of Kastl after about fifty km of perfect roads and flowing, they don't seem ours! The country is really small and I has to say that everything what has, is given by a religious tourism that, personally I find a little, exasperated: the small and modest house native of the Saint Father and a center information that is as practically great as the country!
Some customary photos and then we leave again for the Austrian border where we can visit the castle of Burghausen; this is the longer complex of castles in Europe, formed from 6 courts for a length of around 1000 meters.
Built in the middle age, as residence was used by the dukes of the Low one Baviera. With Henry XIII (1255-1290) the principal part of the castle was built for then to be completed as we now see it in 1387; with the duke Giorgio "the rich one" the castle became the greatest fortification of the time, but after the '500, with the reunification of the Baviera under an only government, the strongly lost meaning subsequently becoming a summer residence and then a jail of state.
We linger there to visit the strong one not knowing whether to do more attention to the strong same or to the underlying many colored really long country the course of the Inn that divides it and unites it from Austria! We attend too much and a downpour of all respect there "he takes" in a restaurant intents to the umpteenth time beer and wurster! We quickly escape to the shelter and then to the pulman to return to the hostel where others German friends he is already giving to do for the supper!
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744 km.
Fed up with the ugly time of these days we decide, to avoid the cold of the mountains, to pick it up fast highway that there hands first to coast along the lake Chiem (this way we can say to have it seen!) and then, crossing the stupendous Baviera, there hands to Rosenheim; we divert then toward south aiming the border, following the stupendous one valley of the river Inn that him it opens in front of us, making us glimpse, among the low clouds, of the mountains bleached of fresh!
Just before the border we stop there to take the stamps for the highways Austrians: with 4 Euro and 30 we are to place for 10 days! (while instead I am remembering that those Germans are free, as also the limited maximum speed not)!
Let's enter Austria in the city of Kufstein and arrive again in Tirol! This time without tails we quickly proceed thanks to the little traffic and to the time that, is clearly returning beautiful!
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Traveling we finally see some mountains and the attractive countries of the Tirol that to the going I have been denied by the fogs there; we arrive to Innsbruck and here we divert for climbing toward the Brennero, where the road is really beautiful and ago a certain impression to go up again it valley to certain speeds! A last height to exploit the convenient Austrian price of the fuels and then, paid the 8 European of the pass, we finally arrive in Italy; then street, a long descent along the valley Isarco where by now the sun accompanies us and us quickly we surpass splendid centers as Vipiteno and Bressanone with theirs splendid fund valley, thin to reach Bolzano.
Reached the French friends we leave the highway and to enliven a few the return, goes up again the holds and curved pannings of the footstep of the Mendola: 16 kms of pure adrenaline with many local and German smanettonis on a trial basis special!
After a "Italian" pasta on the pass and a panning to the dolomitis really in front of us, we go down toward Cles and we take it val of Sun to reach the Tonal desert and to go down in val Camonica; by now in Lombardy we graze the lake of Iseo and glued in the the commuters' traffic reach Bergamo and take the highway that, after the usual tails in Milan, brings us home!
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