| :: August 2018 :: |
| I am home for FOUR weeks. I haven't been home for four weeks in more than a year (and a half, maybe more. eeek). My eye twiitching is getting better, not gone. Yet. We are doing some fun updating in Serole. Relaxing and resting. Our first beach day - was lovely - a good book and cold beers and bobbing in the surf. The nut festival next weekend. Friends visiting. The annual high altitude trek - this year in Switzerland. 13-24 August Staycation 2018 Home Italy |
| Staycation 2018 Serole, long runs, naps, books, wine, friends & beach days August 2018 Italy We found our new favorite beach; Noli. We had been going to Spotorno which could be a little too... I have been wanting to paddle board and I loved it. Of course I have no skill and it wasn't really smooth, but I got the gist of it and look forward to doing it again. |
| I have a love / hate relationship with this 10K loop. The first 4K is up hill but once you are up you have beautiful views of the hills and Alps and in August the sunflowers are blooming, so really, it is worth it. Roccaverano, Italy August 2018 |
| We had HP friends visiting with their dog Ollie and went to visit the Drocco Vineyard for a little wine tasting and buying. I love (all of) them Alba, Italy August 2018 |
| Our annual high altitude trek 2018 Matterhorn to Monte Rosa (not quite), Switzerland August 2018 We left our car in the parking garage in Tasche and trained to Zermatt (it is car free) - we stayed the first night there and had our fill of raclette and beer and started out early the next day to Hornlihutte at 3260 meters Day 1| Zermatt to Hornlihutte: It was about 6 hours of uphill and a climb of around 1500 meters. The hutte sits about 1000 meters below the summit and is very modern. We had our own room which is a total luxury. It was fun to hear all the languages, people come from all over the world to climb the mighty Matterhorn. 21-24 August 2018 Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, Switzerland |
| Day 2 | Hornlihutte to Gandegghutte I thought this one would be a dawdle but my legs were still pooped from the day before so even though it was mostly downhill it was a schlep. |
| One of the very best things about trekking is arriving at the hutte or rifugio and having a cup of hot tea with honey and then beer or wine. Or both. We got to the Gandegghutte around noon. The day was beautiful and we got to stay in one of the offsite little aluminum tents by Swatch (wth?!) \ which had down duvets and wool blankets and beautiful views just for us. Being a vegetarian is challenging in the mountains and I always feel like I am being punished a bit and given less. I pretty much survived off of craisins, nuts, cheese and potatoes. |
| Day 3 | We pulled the plug on this leg because when we woke up, there was a lovely sunrise over Monte Rosa which quickly turned into rain with a forecast of snow. We had schlepped our crampons to get over the glacier to the Monte Rosa hutte but visibility and conditions were crap so we headed south instead, to Zermatt This year's we-made-it-back-to-the-car-victory photo was very much stages since we had to take a gondola and a train to the car which was housed in a Swiss parking garage, albeit clean and state of the art, but not lovely. Auf Weidersehen Schweiß, bis bald! |
| The last days of summer and continuing the birthday celebration. We love our new found beach; Noli. The lido is Club Vittoria and the hotel is Ca di Tobia when we don't stay the vacation house. Joe had prosecco in the room when we arrived and totally spoiled me. We went for long runs and ate excellent food. Read our nerdy leadership books and stared at the ocean. We had dinner at a one star Michelin restaurant - Vescavado but my favorite was L'Alice Innamorata Noli, Italy 31 August - 2 September 2018 Joe organized a lovely beach aperitivo - gorgeous fruit salad and prosecco - love Club Vittoria |
| My birthday was very special! Lori invited me to spinning at Revolution in Milan. Gorgeous spinning studio, I have never spun before, it was fun and a great work out. I definitely want to do it again. Then we went to the top of the building for prosecco and to enjoy the city views and of course did a little shopping. Later Joe, Zaven and I went to Pavia for aperitivo and sushi 30 August We have new tenants in our German house so had to drive up and do the outgoing inspection and the incoming. It was a bit hectic but Zaven drove with me and was an excellent co pilot. We also got our Halloween pumpkins so that was an added bonus. 27-28 August 2018 Holzgerlingen, Germany |
