This week, Paula has asked us for a Bird’s Eye View…. Here are a couple from my travels in the past:
View from the Rock of Dabo, Alsace
And this is looking down on the Stelvio Pass, taking a quick break from driving in a small sports car- on this occasion w e had driven up in thick fog, and suddenly the fog lifted and this was what we saw (the road had been repaired, some of the atmosphere gone, but still a sight to behold):
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Just my kind of place! Stelvio pass is going straight to my travel list. The photos and views are awesome!
Glad you like the Stilfserjoch (Stelvio) – it’s going down as my favourite drive, alas no longer something I could do as it’s a 1500 mile round trip from here!
I know it’s far from you. I’ve been to Merano and Bolzano, but on this pass yet.
Well, I hope you do it one day!
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I’d love to drive that amazing road!
I’m sure you would love it, Gilly!
Wow. What a wonderful adventure it would have been to drive that road in a sports car.
And an almost 40 year old one, to boot!
Must have been wonderful 🙂
Most definitely…one of my best future nostalgias!
I think an old sports car is the best way to tackle those bends Sue. Like being in a ’50s film!
It looks like a hairy drive, but worth it for the views.
Best wishes, Pete.
Great drive, stunning views….and big drops! 🙂
What an amazing road, it looks narrow and scary…
And huge fun in a car that is close to the ground!
Really pretty!
Thanks!
I love the challenge of hairpin bends, though prefer going down to up!
The first time I did it, and there was no fog, going up was amazing…super tight bends, literally one after another, with short straight sections in between 😀
Oh I love those views.. I wonder if I should go to Norway, where they have similar places.
Well, sounds like you should!
I have a sportscar.. so that part is done.
Excellent!
breathtaking Sue!!
Thanks, Cybele! The Stilfserjoch is a stunning road to drive on😀
I can see me tooling around these hair-pin turns in an Aston Martin. Hair blowing in the wind, a beautiful woman by my side, a black Mercedes right behind me, trying to push us off the road. I pull the knob of the floor mounted stick shift open and push the button which fires a miniature V-22 rocket and blows the Mercedes to smithereens. And my woman and I enjoy a picnic mutton and 1947 Chateau Petrus on a Faribault Merino wool blanket laid out on the grass on a hill of the Stelvio Pass.
Dream on, Emilio…first time I did this road, a friend in a beautiful old Aston cracked the cylinder head – twice what my car was worth to repair his engine……
The Stelvio Pass looks like Trollstigen in Norway.
You wouldn’t be the only person to tell me that….now I wish I had seen Trollstigen in fitter days…..
I have a few photos from there: https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/trollstigen-trollveggen-part-2/
Thanks! I’ve just been over for a visit, great scenery, great road – now I just need someone to drive me there!! 😉
Ow! I think that road would give me the jim-jams. But what a view and what a photo.
Oh, I loved the Stelvio! A driver’s road!
Something I most emphatically am not, as my grandchildren pointed out to me. Their father is a driver, and would relish that road.
OK!
The Stelvio Pass is a really great road… You have to try the route Napoleon in France… .-)
I have driven most of it in the past!