Day 3 (Wednesday)

Day started in Menton, beautiful sunny morning. Dave took a run to Italy while Rod & I sorted our lives out and hit the breakfast room.
After loading up, we grabbed the challenge and headed east along the Côte d’Azure. Lovely!
Rod felt that it was unreasonably hot & was most vocal on this point.
The challenge was another photo challenge (sigh) to take photos of 7 cars, and the colour of the car dictated it’s point score: pink 7, brown 6, yellow 5, green 4, blue 3, black 2.
We found a couple of pinks, the rest were browns. Rod got the landspeed record chasing a brown BMW X5. One for the team for captain slow
Later in the day, wanting to push on, I managed to overheat our reliable girl we took a short break while I let her blow off steam (literally) and give her a nice drink of cool water (about 5 litres, LOL!).
We took a nice rest on the shore of Lake Como in a little place called Lierna nr Bellano. We all had a swim and a muckabout with Rod’s 50p football. After a sunbathe, Dave & I swam out to some rocks while Rod foraged for food & drink.
We arrived at the foot of the Passa dello Stelvio around 8:15 with Rod at the wheel. What a road! (pics & video to follow when I connect to hotel wifi).
Rod handed over to Dave around 70% of the way up & Dave kindly let me bring her up the last few awesome corners.
Settled into the hotel room (Perego, nice place) & showered, etc. before sorting out challenge photos and the question sheet from day 1.
Met up with the rest of the teams down at the Albergo Folgore. Handed in the challenges & took our rest among the beverages…
Later on, back in our room, Rod & Dave felt that their water pistols required testing in advance of the impending water fight on morning of Day 4. Needless to say, this ended with a wet hotel room, one popped light in the bathroom, and much hilarity. I have video footage & will consider releasing it for a fee…

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