Castles are always uphill

What a dreadful night! We lost power while preparing dinner and couldn't raise our contact for this apartment in any useful way till 10.00 this morning. We spent a miserable night in the dark. He arrived with us furious with him and him deeply apologetic.  Obviously he'd been out on the tiles. 

We decided to proceed with the plan for the day, a walk to Castle Roncolo/Runkelstein. It was steadily, then steeply, uphill all the way. We passed other castles and vineyards as we walked through the outskirts of Bolzano. 

Much of the walk was by the river.

Eventually we tottered into the castle and straight into the osteria. We wanted a solid german meal. Lyn's schnitzel and fries and my mixed grill with dumplings and sauerkraut met that requirement.  Truly, we spent two weeks in Sicily and never saw this much meat in total!

The castle itself is famous for its secular frescoes.

It had some decent views too.

We walked downhill back to Bolzano much more briskly and both crashed for a couple of hours. Tonight we plan to treat ourselves to an Indian restaurant rather than risk our electrical system.