Hiking in Völs am Schlern

I only started to realize how I missed travelling once the landscape started to change and we were driving on the Brenner highway. Destination for our 5 days trip with the camper van was South Tyrol again, Völs am Schlern. First trip after a long long time, not only because the van has been in…

Enjoying a week at Lago di Levico

2020 has been a different year for everybody so far. While we took social distancing very serious we also did not go on vacation, even not on road trips, whilst this would have been a safe thing to do. Thus we decided to start our 3 weeks roadtrip at the end of the summer holidays…

Schlanders – Camping Vogelsang – Day 2

Around 30°C with a burning sun today but we were telling ourselves today or never – uphill Sonnenberg, downhill Monte Sole (Sunny Benny) and Tschilli trail. We tried that already in 2013, on that very first bike vacation still riding hardtails, and I remember that we had to push our bikes and were not able…

Schlanders – Camping Vogelsang – Day 1

Yesterday we had another transfer day, while travelling to Schlanders / Vinschgau we made a quick stop at the Salewa concept store in Bozen, which is really nicely built with a climbing wall outside of the building and a well organized shop inside. Once arrived in Schlanders on Camping Vogelsang, we managed to set up…

Caravanpark Sexten – Day 1 – Via ferrata Croda Rossa di Sesto

As we brought our via ferrata equipment along and the mountain weather conditions were said to be perfect for the next day, we started our Sexten experience with the Via ferrata Croda Rossa di Sesto. We packed our backpacks in the evening and decided to take the first bus at 8 AM to the cable car…

Transfer Day to Sexten

It was transfer day and a Sunday at the same time – and summer vacation has just started in Italy. As the distance to our next stop was only 1 hour of driving, we wanted to get some action done on our way to Sexten. First stop was at Climbing Park Toblach but it was so crowded…

Kronplatz – MTB Enduro Tour

After a stormy night – 3450 lightnings were counted over Southern Tyrol – we got up not too late to start for the enduro tour that I found on the WWW -> Enduro Tour St. Lorenzen. We climbed a bit more than 900 height meters without any decent with an average percentage gradient of around 10%,…