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Sunday, December 28. 2014

A free ad for Hotel Uhrerhof Deur



We loved this family-friendly hotel in the Dolomites - southern Alps - now part of Italy but Austrian in culture and food. People speak German and at least some Italian, and also Ladin. Mostly Ladin at home, because nobody else in the world speaks it.


This hotel is in the Val Gardena. You get a rental car in Malpensa airport, and drive north almost to the Brenner Pass.


Hiking the Dolomites is on lots of folks' bucket lists.  It can range from easy and relaxed to very challenging hiking. You do not have to climb those peaks, although we have a neighbor who climbed each one of them. A good thing is that there are refugios with coffee, beer, snacks, and frische buttermilch every few miles. There are trail maps to sort-of help you from getting too lost, but getting a little lost is part of the fun.

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, Travelogues and Travel Ideas at 11:14 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Way off topic, from Forbes:

"We turn to a 1938 article looking at Corn Products, which at the time was the world’s biggest corn refinery. A bushel of shelled corn. In the scales it is approximately fifty-six pounds. In the market, currently, it is about sixty cents. Toss it into a feeding trough for little pigs and eventually it is ten
pounds of pork on the hoof.

Ferment and distill it for five gallons of water-clear, throat-scorching corn liquor. Squeeze it and collect a pound and a half of brown corn oil. Grind it and get forty-three pounds of corn meal. Process it one way for thirty-odd pounds of cornstarch; another way for forty pounds of thick corn sirup; yet a third way for twenty-five pounds of dextrose sugar as white and fine as talc. Gather up the leavings for a couple of pounds of oil cake and a dozen of gluten feed and you have about exhausted the possibilities of a single bushel of shelled corn.

There is no connection between this industry and those rather unsatisfactory attempts you read about to manufacture cellulose for paper and power alcohol for motor fuel from cornstalks and cobs."

http://fortune.com/2012/08/19/corn-products-fortune-1938/
#1 feeblemind on 2014-12-28 11:47 (Reply)
BD, what is the best time to visit? My wife and I visited Wengen, Switzerland, back in '96 and hiked around the Bernese Oberland in late June. This seems like a similar type place, so we're considering the Dolomites. Thanks for tips. Who do you fly with? cheers chuck
#2 dhmosquito on 2014-12-28 20:40 (Reply)
We went the first week of September and the weather was perfect. The days were crisp, clear and sunny, perfect for hiking.
#2.1 Mrs BD on 2014-12-28 23:06 (Reply)
Ii was amazed and surprised to see virtually the same picture near the beginning of "The Hundred Foot Journey" !
#3 Marv on 2014-12-28 20:45 (Reply)
I would have considered booking a stay here had they made a small provision for an out-of-the-way spot where I might have relished the surroundings along with my cigar (and, I guess, vice-versa).
#4 Charles Brown on 2014-12-28 22:03 (Reply)
Once I heard a snippet of a radio broadcast in Romansch (allied, sort of, to Ladin) when visiting St. Moritz with a Swiss friend who spoke Swiss-German at home. Amazing the number of obscure languages which survive in that part of Europe among people who speak multiple languages.
#5 Carolyn on 2014-12-29 01:42 (Reply)
This looks like a fabulous hotel in a spectacular region. I've been hankering to see the Dolomites for a while. But why don't they just tell you what their room rates are?
#6 Annie on 2014-12-29 10:45 (Reply)
When hiking in Switzerland, keep in mind that the Wanderweg signs are in Swiss units of measure. We could never match the times listed. Probably because the Swiss have longer legs or are acclimatized better ;-)
#7 EarlWer on 2014-12-29 14:56 (Reply)

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