Photos from Arnad, Aosta Valley, Italy, Europe

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Lardo curing troughs

Windows, Bard

Spaghetti alla chitarra with crayfish sauce!

Late night, Bard

Lardo - absolutely wonderful

Looking down at Bard

Flowers by the road

Lovely misty view

Goats by the house

Meadows of cows grazing

Lovely scenery

Frank, Greg and Cate, day 3 of the walk.

Heading down

Time to walk again

Frank and Lisa

Clouds rolling in

Over the ridge and then the downhill end of the walk

Frank, almost at the peak

Alpenroses lined the paths all the way up.

Little clumps of flowers sprouted in between the rocks on the path

Jackie hiked in the picnic

Post-lunch nap

We lay in meadows of flowers after lunch

Waterlilies, a better view

Waterlilies in the lunchtime lake

Cate and Greg admiring the Wilderness View

The peak

More wildflowers

Wildflowers,

Looking down on the lake

Rest break in the sun

Mountain stream

Onwards and upwards

Breathtaking, really.

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis...more history

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