Lake Garda

Italy - Finally!

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August 16th 2008
Well, we finally made it to Italy!!! Booked into a really nice campsite at the Southern tip of Lake Garda. Campsite is called camping San Francesco and there's a fair bit to do here. We are staying in a large mobile home which normally sleeps up to 7 people and it is about 100 yards from the lake. On Thursday Geoff hired a speedboat and took us on the lake for an hour which was great fun ... 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