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Lago di Braies |
September 8, 2014
Hello from Dobbiaco! Both Dave and I are impressed by the efficiency
of the public transportation here. A $36 pass lets one take any
bus or train anywhere for a week. The units are clean and they show up
on time. Details are spelled out on signposts at every bus stop, and most
of them even have electronic boards showing bus numbers and arrival times.
Our only difficulty is in having to walk nearly a mile to the big station.
It is equally far to the only food store in town. Being unaware that one has to weigh and affix pricing labels to fruits and vegetables, I held up the checkout line for a time. Our room, which provides plenty of counter space for Dave to spread out his kitchen, reeks of bread, tomatoes, cheese, and a big slab of meat that I find too tough and stringy to eat, but which somehow keeps getting smaller.
In multi-story buildings, floors are numbered starting with zero;
so our third-floor room at the hostel is three flights up —
79 steps (only wimps use the elevator!). We have but one room
key; so when one of us goes somewhere, he just stuffs a magazine in the
doorjamb to enable easy re-entry. Since the shared bath and shower
areas are directly across the hall, we can zip over there without even
bothering about clothing.
Breakfasts at the hostel consist of cereal with purple yogurt,
lemon-flavored water, bread, admittedly delicious coffee,
and some sort of chocolate paste that seems quite popular.
The milk for one's coffee actually is heated. Dave never
actually has tried mixing cereal and yogurt together, whereas I
frequently use it at home in place of dessert myself.
When prodded, Dave tries the recipe himself; but he won't stir
it lest someone notice what he is doing.
After yesterday's strenuous outing, Dave and I opt to take it a bit easier today with a walk around what our hiking guidebook suggests is the prettiest lake in the Dolomites.
The lake is at right-center on the map
Very nice
Around the back, the trail goes up and over a cliff. The requisite moderate exercise seems sufficient to dissuade most tourists from completing the loop.
§: This wasn't so much a hike as a stroll, included here only because
it is listed in 'The Book'. There are trail options for continuing to greater
things.
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Back at the hostel
The city airport
