Jun 06 2008

The Dolomites

Published by at 3:24 pm under Dolomites,Italy

I think that “The Dolomites” sounds like it could have been the title for a bad Hanna-Barbera cartoon from the 1970s.  The Dolomites are a band of crime-fighting heroes.  There’s a strong man, a hot woman, a not-so-ambiguously gay teenage boy, and some mascotty-type animal that speaks gibberish, but all the Dolomites can understand what he is saying.  Especially at the end of the episode when he has the punch line to another crime well fought, and The Dolomites stand around and laugh at the mascotty-type animal while the bad guy sulks in a corner.

Anyway.  The Dolomites are actually beautiful mountains in northern Italy in an area that used to be part of Austria.  It’s very different here than in the rest of Italy – the architecture and people are more Teutonic, and most of the people who live here speak German.  We stopped eating pasta and pizza and started eating knödel and strudel. 

My friend Petra who lives in Munich drove down here to spend a few days relaxing with us.  We based ourselves in a town called Meran or Merano (all the towns have two names – one’s in German and one’s in Italian).

One of the most consistent things we read in our guidebooks about the Dolomites is how sunny it is for most of the year.  I’m not sure who we were supposed to speak with to order up some sun, but it rained pretty much the whole time we were there.  Therefore, we don’t have too many pictures, unfortunately.  But it was beautiful when we caught a few views of mountains through the clouds, trust us.

– Meredith

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