An ice cold beer and a bowel of green and black olives would refresh most travellers. Over the last weeks I have spent many happy evenings in Fauno Bar, simply watching other travellers cascade past or admiring classic motorcycles as their effortlessly cool owners stop for engaging conversations and socialisation.
If Ferrari made scooters would they look like this… Italians simply do everything with style and squeezing a scooter down tiny cobbled alleys is a lot easier than a top heavy GS, just don’t ask me how I know
When we left this morning the temperature was just over 34 degrees and in just 3 hours it was 2.8 and I was brushing sleet out of my hair… for August the driving rain and ferocious wind is unusual even at this altitude even though this is the highest paved mountain road in the Alps. Lunch at Le Canyon in Val D’Isere was a good choice and we were joined by two Spanish riders on a Yamaha and a FS800 one of who had discovered her waterproofs were leaking – with today’s rain if they were going to leak then today would have been the day…
