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After yesterdays downpour we've woken to wonderfully warm sunshine. After a hearty breakfast at which Chris appeared to be going for the world record of cake eating in the morning, it's time for the cars to be scruitineered before they're issued team numbers.
The Navigational rally starts this afternoon after a briefing from Freddy on etiquitte during the run and then we're off to the San Marino racetrack.
Unforvnately the weathers turned but still Chris can't wait to give Snoopy a bath, and Snoopy's found a friend already.
We spent the morning doing some more mountain passes including the impressive 2000 metre, single track Manghan. This is another technical drive, but luckily we had a clear road apart from a couple of lorries putting out the snow poles ready for winter. This is great passes but not one to be done on a day the locals use ht for a cycling tour which is evident from the chalked messages on the road. Spectators as with the Tour de France write messages to encourage the participants, but to be honest when you see the climbs on some of these passes, i never comprehend how these men and women cycle up them.
This morning we had a couple of huge Stag Dears run out whilst we we're on one of the passes. They were really awesome to watch and made a change from falling dogs.
We've left the mountains behind and now making our way to Imola, for the start of the Italian Job 2008, and boy what a difference in temparature. In the mountains we struggled to get above 10 degrees but now in basking in 21.
Humm... Time for some icecream me thinks!
Crikey we're in room 101, i hope it doesn't mean we get binned like they do in the program!
This evening we're at the hotel Ideal Park in Laives just outside of Bolsano. From the outside this hotel looks nothing special, but inside it's like a different world, with 2 swimming pools, including one on the roof with spectacular views over the valley. Our room is HUGE. Prior to our swim this evening (we chickened out, when it came to the rooftop pool) i actually went for a jog in our room!
We've had another amazing day, doing 8 mountain passes before we found a gem of a restaurant, where we had the menu of the day which consisted of Four Cheese pasta for starters and Escalape for main and all for €9 each. Hence, tonight we're doing another Bear Grylls and having dinner in our room with a bottle of Prosseco for drinkies.
HIC, I hope i've typed this OK!
After an early start to avoid any of the predibted snow, we made our way to the Fluelapass the through the Livingo Tunnel after which we found diesel at €0.83 or 66 pence a litre! Only problem we didn't need any fuel. Darn it!
From Livingn we decided on another pass instead of Stelvio which we've done previously. So we decided on the Mortirolo and boy was we pleased. The Stelvio might be higher, but this starts lower down, then climbs and climbs and climbs some more. This stunning single track pass is technically a much more challenging drive than Stelvio and we've picked this as our all time favourite pass.
New one today as well. We had a dog and a load of stones fall off a mountain, just in front of us. EEK. Dont know who was more shocked, Chris or the dog.
Nevermind i think the dog was a ROCKVEILLER than a Rottveiller.
