Scenic Route

Drive to Italy

Today we got up and drove through the Alps to check out the scenery. Shelby, Colin and I made the drive south from Garmisch, through Innsbruck, Austria and on down into Italy through the Alps and Dolomites this summer on our vacation. The drive was gorgeous then and we knew it would be beautiful in the winter too. We thought Shelby's parents would enjoy the drive straight through the Alps and a visit to Italy since we were here and so close. We went to Bolzano, Italy which is a mountain town in northern Italy that is kind of a combination of the German/Austrian/Tirol/Italian cultures. It's a pretty little place and we checked out an old monastery from the 1200's, the big Dom Cathedral and some of the markets and village sites. We ate at an Italian/German restaurant that was decent, but wasn't quite like the Italian food Shelby and I became accustomed to our on summer vacation this year. After a little eating and sightseeing it was time to head back to the hotel so we could start packing up and preparing to take Shelby's parents to the airport the following morning.