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At 5.45am Arild pokes me in the arm to tell me the stars are out. At first I was at a loss as to why my morning slumber had been so rudely disturbed. Then I remembered expressly demanding that I wanted to woken should the clouds that had obscured the stars the previous night lift.

By the time I stagger from our room, Roberta Silva, who manages the Rifugio Roda di Vael in the Dolomite mountains where I’m staying has come to collect me – clearly I had been adamant that I must see the stars the previous evening.

To both Arild and Roberta I will be eternally grateful. Using the telescopes that stargazers Alberto and Andrea had demonstrated to us the previous evening I can clearly see Orion’s Belt and Mars. It’s an incredible experience, and not that we needed any telescope to appreciate the twinkling early morning sky.

The day before we had taken the cable car from Vigo di Fassa, a small commune in the Trentino region to Conca del Ciampedie. From there