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Day: |
064 |
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Date: |
Sunday, 15 July 2012
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Start: |
Nassfeld
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Finish: |
Nassfeld
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Daily
Kilometres: |
0 |
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Total
Kilometres: |
1491.3
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Weather: |
Thunderstorms, rain, hail and zero visibility until
mid-afternoon, then partly sunny.
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Accommodation: |
Hotel Gartnerkofel, Nassfeld
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Nutrition: |
Fruit and yoghurt, scrambled egg, roll and jam for breakfast;
soup, salad and pasta for lunch; salad, pasta and tiramasu for
dinner
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Aches: |
None
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Pictures: |
No pictures today
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GPS Track: |
No GPS today
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Journal: |
Heavy thunderstorms arrived late in the evening, and I was woken
many times during the night by the sound of thunder and heavy hail
blasting my room's window. When I got up at 7am to go down for
breakfast, the thunderstorms and rain were continuing and there was
zero visibility outside. It wasn't a hard decision to stay put
at the hotel and I went down and they said I could.
I spent
the day eating, reading email, planning the remainder of my hike to
Trieste and working out how I would get from Trieste to London,
reading a copy of the Weekend Financial Times, and watching the Tour
de France and a pre-Olympics athletics meeting from Barcelona on TV.
My preference for getting to London for the Olympics after my trip
was to take a couple of days by train, but my best guess is that I
will only get to Trieste the day before the Olympics Opening
Ceremony, so I have booked a cheap Ryanair flight to London for that
afternoon.
The weather began clearing during the afternoon
and tomorrow's forecast is good.
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