Italy - In the snow over the mountains in Parco dei Nebrodi

I want mountains! I want to hike! Come on, let's go to the National Park "Parco dei Nebrodi"!

Wished, drove and sobered to realise that we are here at the wrong time of year.
The road up into the mountains is magnificent. Once again I am grateful for my Swiss mountain pass driving pro. Hairpin bend after hairpin bend, he spirals our Felix up the mountains, only to descend again on the other side of the mountain with just as many bends. This goes on for hours. The view is magnificent, a new, enchanting view after every bend.

The route takes us right across the north of Sicily. What we didn't think of, however, is that the little clouds back there are slowly coming closer. That means we drive higher and higher and the clouds turn into fog. And, what clouds do when they are bored, they make it rain. Or, high up in the mountains, they make it snow.

My husband ignores the mandatory winter tyre signs, reassuring me with: "We have snow chains with us." Good, I trust him. What else can I do?

In the deep fog we only see leafless trees and a few wild boars, hopefully successful in their search for food. To be on the safe side, we stay at a sufficient distance, lest they take a liking to us.

The higher we go, the more we think we are in the Swiss mountains. There is no end of snow to the right and left, the first ski tourers emerge from the fog. We stop and ask how much further up we have to go. They reassure us that we have just reached the Spitz and now it's all downhill. Thank God!

By the way: In Switzerland I'm always totally annoyed when the guests drive up the wintry passes with summer tyres, it's all so dangerous! Now we are "the tourists" ourselves! How perceptions change...

After countless bends we arrived at the bottom, so we visited the Parco dei Nebrodi in the fog. This is also worth another visit at another time of year.

At the sea we find a small, beautiful campsite and sum up: It shouldn't have been, it wasn't good. Not good at all. And we send a few extra greetings of gratitude to "up there".

Addendum: I must have been so tense that I hardly took any photos, but I only noticed this in the evening when I was sorting the pictures.

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Merci for "travelling with us

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