The valley of Isel from Linz castle

The Isel valley from a window of the castle above the city

May 28th 2011
Magic! I woke early to open the curtains and found a winter wonderland. “Lindsay, you’ve got to get out of bed to see this. Come on. It’s special”. “Huh, grunt”, but he did get up to look. What a contrast from yesterday. Last night we had rain and thunder in the mountains and then awoke to an almost whiteout of snow blanketing the landscape and cloud coming and going. We couldn ... 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

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These blogs were started to record our Europe May to August 2011 trip. The Blogs were great for us to diary each day, for others to follow and for us to review when back home. Several have been published into personal books. And so it has continued adding: Europe - Italy,Switzerland, France, 2011 The Hurunui High Country Walk 2011. Tasmania 2012 Europe 2013 - Austria, Switzerland, France and Ireland. Alps2Ocean and Clutha Bike Trails 2014 A Christmas in Switzerland and Germany 2014 Biking the Danube, the Italian Dolomites and Austrian Lakes 2015 Vancouver, Lake Chelan (Washington S... full info

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