Riccione to Aldino, Dolomites, Italy

Wednesday 28th September 2022
Today we awoke early as we needed to be packed and on our way by 8.45am. We have a train booked from Riccione to Bologna at 9.46am and it is a 3km walk to the Riccione Station. So we had break, packed up and were ready to leave on time. I decided we would catch the bus as it was way too far to walk with my big wheelie bag, backpack and food. David was happy with that as well. We caught bus No 125 from stop 58 to 51. Once on the bus we struggled with purchasing our tickets and by the time this was done we were at stop 49. Oops! We had gone a couple of stops too far. We added about 100m on to the 900m walk, but this was a lot better than the 3km without the bus. We arrived at Riccione Station with 30mins to spare.

The the train arrived it was quite crowded but we managed a seat upstairs. For the entire 1.5 hours to Bologna we tried to decide what to do. We were tossing up a couple of options.
1. Stay in Bologna for a couple of days
2. Go to Florence for my birthday
3. Go to towns a little out of the city – like Modena, Vicenza, Padua or Verona – the price were of the Richter scale.
4. Head straight to the Dolomites – except weather is supposed to be wet.

We managed to find an apartment with a kitchen in Aldino  of $10AUD a night. This is the cheapest of any of the options and we decided to go with that. So after picking up the car at Bologna, we got some lunch and headed on our way. David was a little anxious about the drive but he went amazingly well. He drove comfortably the whole way.

The drive out of the city was a bit hectic, but it wasn’t long before we were on the autostrada (speed 110-130kmh). Then it wasn’t long before we saw the mountains in the distance. I started to get excited then. The views were spectacular. The last stage of the drive (20km) was hairpin corner after hairpin. The roads were very narrow and we drove through farm land. We arrived at Scheidnerhof at about 5.30pm. After a struggle with language (they speak German here) we managed to get in contact with the manager and were shown to our lovely apartment. We then headed to the shop for supplies, then back home to cook dinner. I was ready to cook, when we realised we had blown a fuse. I called the manager, but got an answering machine msg in German. Bugger,. I tried again and then got the manager, but she had no English so we communicated through Google Translate. She came over and realised we had blown an fuse but it wouldn’t be fixed. We then moved to another apartment downstairs.

We enjoyed another roster fry veges but this tine we had turkey. It was yummy once again.  It is the for an early night tonight. Hopefully I can get to the competition posts in the next couple of days.

 

I can’t wait to hike tomorrow if it isn’t raining. If it is, I can’t wait for a lazy day in our lovely apartment.