So today we have travelled from France to Italy. We have just arrived at the hotel in Terlago, on the side of lake Terlago. Pulling up to the hotel, it is beautiful.
We started out @ 7 this morning, tapped in our address on the Sat nav and followed the directions. We'd been driving for a couple of hours when my co-driver highlighted that being in the centre of Milan wasn't necessarily the best route. I checked the Sat nav for road preferences. The Sat nav in the truck gives you 3 possible routes for every destination you enter. At no stage did it give an oppurtunity to choose your preferences. Well, there is a button, the co-pilot found.
We had been avoiding toll roads.
Not only had we been avoiding toll roads on this leg of the journey, but we had done it all the way down to the 3 Vallee's. This was the reason for us hugging the toll road, then the toll road would dive through a tunnel and we'd be doing the Italian job mountain roads. This is the cause of us navigating mountain passes on the 1st leg unecessarily.
So we sorted this and blasted through to our hotel just outside andalo, or so we thought.......
As i said earlier, we're at the hotel. We arrived but something told me there was something wrong........
Well, according to the booking website, the hotel is 8km away from andalo. It is in actual fact nearer 40km.
Apparently, after speaking with the hotelier this happens a lot due this website.
It never rains, it pours.
So we are now in a beautiful hotel in an ideallic location on the edge of one Italy's famous lakes. Which is great, but not if you've come to ski in andalo which is f***ing miles away.
What now?
Nice food, plenty of vino and a sleep.
No seriously, we're going to drive into andalo in the morning and try to find somewhere else, ideally near the snow!
If it was all smooth running, it wouldn't be an adventure now would it?
Will keep u posted...
J&S
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