After a bit of a video chat with my best friend back home, I packed up the car and headed down the mountain. Lucky there was a lot less traffic on the way down than there was on the way up. Mind you once I hit the city it was jammed. I followed the lake for a bit, before having to turn inland and back track a little bit to head the right direction.
I them came across Maggie’s nemesis. Tunnels, one after the other after the other, I’m guessing 20km of tunnels with a gap of 100m to 500m between each one. They varied from 250m to 3 or 4km in length.
The drive towards Valmalenco followed the valley floor through numerous towns. Most of which had traffic jams. But not too bad. Eventually I turned off and headed up one of the hills about 8km.
It’s a picturesque ski town. Surrounded by snow topped mountains. Unfortunately much like the rest of southern Europe it has a heavy haze which makes getting a good photo pretty much impossible. But that’s okay, I have seen it. I kind of hoped the cable car would be operating, it would have been nice to pop up another 500m, even if there was no view.
It was then time for lunch and a relaxing afternoon reading my book.