From Venice to Milan? No way, there is much more fun at the north. We took the way to Arabba, passed by Lago di Santa Croce (Holly Cross Lake), we took the SS51 not the highway tunnel.

In Arabba a well-known bikers paradise begins, Stella Ronda, an amazing 64km twisty and hilly road around the Dolomites; one of the best rides in our whole trip. Back to Arabba for the night. Next day we took the road east to Canazei, Bolzano, Merano and finally to another iconic place, The STELVIO PASS, in uppercase of course.

Is this Austria, Germany or what? No, it is Südtyrol, german speaking Italy, here prosciutto pizza becomes schinken pizza.

Stelvio pass is the second highest pass in the area (2.757m) and maybe the most difficult paved pass in the alps, they say it has 48 curves, most of them complete U turns; unluckily we could not count them all, we had to turn back at about 2500m elevation because the pass was closed with snow. Great lunch up there. This place is amazing, I can not explain it with words.

We met a nice couple in Stelvio, Carlos and Lorely from Costa Rica, biker friends, good friends.

We slept in a small town called Laces (Latsch auf Deutsch), preparing ourselves for the Swiss adventure.