The Jagged Dolomites and Back to Lermoos, Austria

Breakfast Room in Hotel Almhof
in Castelrotto, Italy

Views of the Dolomites

After a delicious buffet breakfast (meat, cheese, brotchen, yogurt, granola, juice and coffee), we drive further into the Dolomites.  It’s a beautiful, sunny day.  The views are awesome.  The mountain tops are steep and very jagged.  The cows in the pastures have their bells on.

Unfortunately, we decide not to stay another night in the area.  We take the Brenner Pass into Austria and drive to Lermoos, Austria (just south of Garmisch).  To our dismay, we find many hotels, zimmers (accommodations in homes), and restaurants are closed.  This is the shoulder season—the time between summer and winter, when many businesses and families take holiday.  After searching for awhile, we decide to return to a place where we’ve stayed at many years earlier, Renate’s Guesthouse in Biberwier.  Her apartment (bedroom, kitchen & bathroom) is available, with breakfast, for 50 euros. 

Earlier in the day, when we drove into Austria from Italy, our weather took a sudden change.  We now had an overcast, cold day—6 degrees centigrade.  We have dinner at one of the only restaurants open in Lermoos (schnitzel), walk the town a bit and then settle into our warm apartment to watch TV in German and catch up on this blog.  I’m enjoying some Orvieto Classico vino and a piece of apple strudel—yum.