The Times – Rovereto was the final destination on a whistlestop tour that had included Milan and Genoa, which meant it was the one place we had never actually heard of and that we could spend a couple of days properly exploring. The train journey from Verona helped to establish a sense of what was to come. We followed the Adige River up into the Lagarina valley, where steep mountains strung with long wisps of slope fog rose above us.
