We go off for a couple of days because I have a car and we usually don't and it's hard to get around up here in the mountains. We go to a place called Vipiteno because I saw it on Instagram and it looks beautiful. It is but we soon realise that 25th April is Independence day and it's a holiday here as well as in Australia and hardly anything is open. There are lot of tourists but we're not catered for. We eventually find something but the food is very Germanic as 76% of people here speak German, the rest Italian but it seems most people speak English.
It's a beautiful little town founded in Roman times and then had it's heyday in the 15th century with colourful houses along the main street with a view up to the snow topped mountains. The menus at the two places where we eat have a page devoted to asparagus which we love so I have asparagus ravioli with thin slivers of white asparagus and a sage butter. But within a couple of hours walking it's environs and within, we have seen it all.
The next day we head back via Brunico, having missed a mineral museum and fortress as everything is closed including most of Brunico but there are two restaurants open so we book in and walk up to Brunico castle and survey the town from on high. Walking on pathways with dandelion and forget-me-knot grassy verges and fruit trees in flower. The church has a folk museum but that also is closed. Note to self - go nowhere in Italy on 25th April.
And upon an early return, I begin the painting again. The big coat cupboard in the hall is in my sights, I have great ideas which I wonder if I can create here. Three colours and some Tyrolean folk art is my project. But for that, I'll need more paint! I can use the colours that I haven't liked but may have to get a few acrylics for the flowers. Another shop to try and find and try and ask for it with limited vocab and photos C'est la vie.
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