Morter to Resia      Hello from the apple orchards of the upper Adige Valley! As usual Dianne and I were wide awake and twiddling our thumbs by 5:00 a.m. Breakfast wasn’t officially scheduled to start until 7:30 a.m. but we thought we might as well bring our bikepacking bags across early from the satellite building where we slept to the main hotel building so we could get set up to depart as soon as we’d eaten. To our surprise and pleasure there were already others in the breakfast room at about ten past seven so we were able to hit the road by the time breakfast was scheduled to start. Bonus!  Here’s a photo of Di only a hundred metres or so after we left the hotel … For the first time since we could remember there were clouds in the sky and the air was a bit cooler. Despite not being able to check into our accommodation in Resia until 3:00 p.m. we were keen to make a quick getaway because there was some rain forecast for between 6 a.m. and noon. We were caugh...

 Bolzano to Morter We rode past a couple of landmarks on our way out of town Our accommodation in Bolzano had no breakfast facilities so after seeing what was available we settled on the Hotel Figl , which was opening at 7:30. They had a lovely garden patio and it was a gorgeous morning so we opted to eat outside … … this hotel is right in the centre of the old part of the city and if we were ever to come back to Bolzano to spend a few nights it is definitely a place we’d have to consider. We only had a light breakfast because we had a plan to have a stop at a cafe for a snack about 30 kilometres up the road not far before we tackled the first of two real climbs for the day. Being early on a Sunday morning it was not all hectic leaving town, especially amongst the cobbled streets of the centre … … but even on the wide open roads on the outskirts of town … As we were exiting town this, the first castle of the day, presented itself … Soon we were back on the EV (EuroVelo) 7 alongside...