Austria - Day 6 - The world's greatest road (according to Top Gear)

Breakfast at the Grand Hotel was pretty good, but there wasn't any bacon so Mark had to make do with half a dozen croissants. Steve had cake; today's breakfast was good. 

We checked out and hit the road. It was busy again to start with but cleared up and then we had some flowing roads. 

About half way to our destination in Switzerland we went over the Stelvio Pass which was Top Gears best Road in the world, it's also in the list of top 10 most dangerous roads in the world. 

The start of the ascent was quite easy and there were lots of performance cars trying it so we raced some Porsches and a Lotus for a while and then left them. There were 48 switchbacks on the way to the top which is over 9000 feet high. 

By the time we got to the top we were knackered, so we stopped, parked the bikes  had a chat then went back to take some photos and only then did the Porsches we raced turn up. 

We stopped for food at the top and realised that the people who work there have to do that every day for their daily commute. We chatted to some idiot cyclists who had ridden from Germany! They'd just made it to the top which took them 3 hours. And we were knackered with a 1000cc engine between our legs. 

The journey down was fun but different, less switchbacks but still brutal and a group of Ferraris, a GTR,  big Jag, Aston and so on went the other way. Then it started raining to make it even more interesting. 

With that out of the way we carried on more awesome roads and Mark played fuel bingo. In the middle of nowhere, on the Italy Swiss border, Mark's trip computer said that he had 0 miles left. Luckily we did find a petrol station that sold rocket fuel for next to nothing. 

The rain then picked up so we pushed on to St. Maritz, our final destination.

We checked in and went for a walk finding the most beautiful lake, one of many stunning views here. 

Walking around a little we found a giant horse statue, there seems to be a horse fixation with the place, not sure why, no ones updated us on that yet. However if you zoom in on the picture below, you'll see something very strange coming out of the horses butt...

Into town, there are designer shops everywhere and it appears that we're in the Monaco of Switzerland. Steve tried to buy some waterproof spray from an outdoor adventure shop. Obviously they didn't stock that, but they did have snakeskin high heels. Different world. 

We chilled at a bar and had half a lager which cost nearly six quid, meaning a late night is off the cards! 

We checked Google for a more 'affordable bar' and ended up in a pseudo American bar in a mall. It wasn't bad to be honest and the barmaid was very friendly. We were the only two customers mind you.