Some thoughts on hiking in the Dolomites and via ferrata

We just had time for a short four-day hike in the Dolomites, prior to leaving Italy and returning to the UK for the first part of our cycle adventure around Scotland.

The Dolomites, close to the Austrian border in the far north-east of Italy, is a mountain range I have wanted to visit for a long time. It’s famous for dramatic rock spires and impossibly sheer faces of rock, rising up from pine-clad valleys.

I was expecting some amazing mountain views, but I wasn’t sure if we’d be climbing any...