This week the blog goes on holiday in the Val di Fassa, in the Italian Dolomites. With the flower season, even at high altitudes in Cyprus almost over, ones thoughts turn to even higher mountains at a more northerly altitude, where spring has only now begun. The Dolomites are an incredible place, not only because of the dramatic landscape with towering peaks of dolomitic limestone, beautiful high altitude plants but also the most amazing wild flower meadows to be seen anywhere in the world in the most vibrant colours of pink, blue, yellow and white. Add to this the interesting woodland flora, a variety of orchids and many butterflies and the Dolomites are a place to visit at least once in a lifetime. They are rightly on the World Heritage List.