Thursday 26th May 2022

We left Male after buying some bread. We travelled north east passing through an area of intensive fruit growing.

We crossed a pass and made a long descent, seen here, towards the city of Bolzano where we planned to visit the archaeological museum which houses the body of the famous "iceman" who died in the Alps over 5000 years ago and was disgorged from a glacier in 1991perfectly preserved and along with all his belongings. Unfortunately despite ours and our sat nav's best efforts we failed to find the museum due to a combination of closed roads, dead ends and impassable barriers. The whole city seemed to be a massive road work! We felt relieved to get out in one piece. We headed north towards the Brenner Pass.

Our route followed the motorway here seen high above us. We were glad to stop for a cup of tea to untangle our nerves after the traumatic encounter with Bolzano.

We took on diesel at the town of Brixen and stopped for the day at a small parking area high above the town. Here's the view from the side door of our van,

This rather strange cross is nearby.

Soon after we arrived two German registered vans turned up. A little later on a man and a woman approached us. They said that we were on private property but it would be okay for us to stay for one night! They said that sometimes rubbish gets left here, I assured them that we never leave rubbish anywhere other than in waste bins.

As it got dark this evening the lights of the town came on.

Today we travelled 77 miles (124 kilometres). We are at: N46.7253 E11.6632

Brixen    Street View