Ultimate Alps Tour - CUA1503

Saying goodbye...  Always difficult to say goodbye to such a super group, so we thought we would give them an official salute in pictures. Here we go: in random order of appearance, thanks so much for a wonderful tour to:  Riding day 8 - Heading back to Mieming!  Riding day 7 - Rest day ride to Lake Garda Riding day 6 - Rest day ride to the Dolomites Riding day 5 - Lugano to Bolzano Arriving after the "iron butt ride", 10 hours on the road to Bolzano, our group very much deserved the two rest days that awaited. This was celebrated with a bit of a late storytelling evening by the pool, so we may have to officially apologize to the neighbours of Hotel Scala. No photographical evidence exists which isn't slightly off-focus. Strange...  Riding day 4 - Zermatt to Lugano Tour Guide Ted took off this day with a small part of the group who chose do to only bike riding today. Whereas Tour Guide Wim took the rest of the group... On a trainride! "Huh?", we here you say? Well, here's why...  Riding day 3 - Brunnen to Zermatt This tour is called Ultimate, right? So no short riding routes today! Everyone decided to go for the longer route on this third riding day. So Tour Guides Michael and Wim took the whole group out for a fantastic ride over Switzerland's motorcycle playground: the loop around Süstenpass and Furkajoch.  Riding day 2 - Pontresina to Brunnen Tour Guide Ted left Pontresina with part of the group, up for the very long riding day, crossing back and forth from Switzerland into Italy, going over no less than six mountain passes!  Tour Guide Wim took off with the rest of the group who opted for the more leisurely, but very pretty shorter route, staying in beautiful Switzerland all day long.  Riding day 1 - Mieming to Pontresina Arrival Day Arrival day minus one... Preparing Ultimate Alps So all that is left now is one more evening. The tourguides are getting the routes sorted out and are spending an evening studying their maps of the Alps... One more night's sleep and we'll see our guests arriving at Kaysers Hotel in Mieming tomorrow... Watch this space!