The date: 14 May. Ascension Day, a public holiday also known as Father’s Day in Germany. We had really been looking forward to a long weekend in the Dolomites, but the weather soon put an end to that idea. Thursday, Friday - bad weather. We decide to try our luck anyway and leave at 6 o’clock in the morning. And we are lucky. After 3 three hours of non-stop rain on the way to the »Glockner«, the weather clears up. And we have the road almost entirely to ourselves …