Well not today but yesterday.

My daughter is visiting from South Africa and yesterday was a brilliant spring day. We started out at 10 and went first to Morbegno and visited the Ciapponi shop which is an Aladdin's cave of food, cheese, salami, and wine with its 3 levels of cellars below street level.

We then went to Bormio where I momentarily considered going over the Stelvio Pass but as the temperature was falling with altitude I dismissed the idea. We stayed with plan A and headed over the Foscagno Pass, 2291 metres, into the duty free area of Livigno. We stopped briefly at the top of the pass, with snow all around, to take a couple of photos. I can tell you I was very pleased to get my gloves back on. We then headed down to Livigno for lunch at a bar near the end of a ski run. It was weird to be sitting in the warm sun with people arriving a few metres away on skis or departing on the ski lift.

After making a few purchases of tobacco and alcohol I filled the near empty tank with petrol, 87 cents a litre thank you, and we headed through the Munt La Schera tunnel into Switzerland. We then returned home via San Moritz where the lakes are all frozen over with people doing cross country skiing. By this stage, with the sun dropping behind the mountains, we were really starting to feel the cold biting at our ears and we were very pleased to drop down the unending hairpins of Maloja Pass to warmer climes.

A round trip of about 360 kilometres and all in all a fabulous day.

Peter

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