On The Move!!: Bolzano

Missy finally arrived and a missed connection and 3 delayed flights she arrived in Verona 20 hours after she was scheduled. . But her fun was not over…. At the rental car counter they said that because her flight was delayed they could no longer find her reservation (even though she notified them AND was within the 24 hour delay policy!). Needless to say that was almost the final straw for her- but we were able to rent a car from a different company and finally were on our way. We drove from Verona to Lake Garda and onto Bolzano. It was a pretty drive and the car we got was great. We found our airBNB and settled in by 9pm. As it was late we bought a slice of pizza and went to bed. We got up early on Monday and after having some juice and muesli bar/fruit we headed out to see the town of Bolzano. It’s a cute town in an area of Italy that has been occupied by both the Austrians and Germans and most people in Bolzano speak both German and Italian and signs are in both languages. We met our food tour guide at 11 and visited several places having bruschetta, pretzels, spatzel, bierknoedel(German bread dumplings), beer tastings, apfelstrudel and lemon tart. Its was fun. After the tour we walked around a bit more and then went to the car for a drive to Ortesei. We checked into our hotel in Ortesei around 5 and took a walk around the town. We bought cheese and salami and dried apricots for a lite dinner and now are going to bed early to prepare for. Day of hiking tomorrow.