Today was spent walking around this tranquil little town and looking at the shops, the churches and the Dolomite mountains surrounding us. Sat in Cafés and had lunch and drinks on the Piazza Walter named after a minstrel who around 1521 use to delight the princes and people of this mountain town with his songs and poems. Bolzano is made for hiking up the cable car to Ritten and Ober Bozen at 2250 m. The town has a brand new cable car which brings you up there in 12 minutes. Their is also a lovely river, more of a mountain stream, running fast and clear through town. That is about it, little car traffic but lots of speeding bicyclists everywhere. The people are charming and speak mostly German and Italian, we are still in Italy though this was an Austrian town up until 1918.
Tomorrow we go to Salzburg via the Brenner Pass and via Innsbruck where we will change trains. The weather for the weekend of Pentecost in Salzburg looks cold and rainy.
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