| These are a few photos from our Italian   
        holiday. Gill and I took the cable car from Malcesine on Lake Garda to   
        the Monte Baldo ridge. The temperature was in the high 30s at Lake   
        level, so we weren't going to walk up it were we? We took a stroll along   
        the ridge and then walked back down to Malcesine. Monte Baldo is 2218   
        metres high, so it took us a few hours, getting steadily hotter as we   
        got lower.  
         There is a bar half way down, the Bar Prai, which we naturally aimed   
        for, only to find it shut. It apparently only opens in the height of   
        summer.  
        The photos of the Dolomites are from a day trip we took into the   
        mountains. We stopped at the Poldoi Pass and the Sella Pass.   
        Skiing is such a big industry in this part of the world that I think   
        the mountains are slightly spoiled with ski tows, lifts and associated   
        cabling everywhere.   
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