The lake front boardwalk

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June 11th 2008
After a leisurely stroll around town we decided to spend the money we saved by not going on the Gondoliers and ‘Ritz it up’ like the rich and famous. We hired a speedboat to zoom around the lake. I was keeping my eye out for George Clooney sun baking on his deck (he has a house on Lake Como and according to the local paper he’s in town) but no such luck. Fabulous fun but our luck ran out whe ... read more

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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... ... read more