Tuesday, September 02, 2025

June 29: Pontresina Panaromic Hike

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We got up early, ate breakfast, and got onto the bus which looked like a small airport shuttle to the top of Bernina pass. The bus was a f...
Friday, August 29, 2025

June 28: Trafoi to Livigno (with bus transfer from Santa Maria Val Mustair)

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  Late in the evening, Arturo had asked me what alternatives to Bolzano there were for getting back to Munich, as all the trains from there...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Review: Novelist as a Vocation

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 I enjoyed Norwegian Wood enough to check out what Haruki Murakami thought about his career as a novelist. Novelist as a Vocation is an ori...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

June 27: Pfunds to Trafoi

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  It was clear and beautiful in the morning, perfect for our climb up from Pfunds. We rode up the road a bit and then descended to the Pfun...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

June 26: Mayrhofen to Pfunds (with train transfer from Jenbach to Landeck)

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  We got up, ate our Weisswurst, and got the bikes packed and ready to roll at 8:00am. The sun was shining and the bike path was easy rolli...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Review: Norwegian Wood

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 I will confess to having bounced off prior attempts to read Haruki Murakami books, but hope springs eternal, so somehow Norwegian Wood fou...
Friday, August 22, 2025

June 25: Mayrhofen Panoramaweg

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Arturo, Mark and I got out of the apartment at 6:50am, walking to the nearest supermarket. When you visit Europe, you're used to very i...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Review: Kaisnvxs SIM card for Europe

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 I've always found the e-sim providers to be disappointing, with low speeds similar to T-mobile's European performance. This year, :...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

June 24: Krimml to Mayrhofen

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  The hotel didn't come with breakfast, but was fortunately right across the street from a Spar that opened early, so Arturo and I we...