Flakes and a Castle

Italy, Lake Garda and The Big 'Hob'day

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May 24th 2011
Italy, Lake Garda and The Big 'Hob'day We flew out to Malcescine on Wednesday 18th May as part of a week long package holiday, so had a nice hotel booked for 7 nights and best of all a coach to take us from Verona airport straight to the hotel. The time in Malcescine was very relaxed, lots of wandering the cobble-stone streets, admiring the really cool castl ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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