September 2009 A MINI TRAVELOGUE by Brian William Carter CHAPTER ONE I’m not sure whose idea it was. My wife, Janet, mentioned that as it was our fifth wedding anniversary in September, it would be nice to revisit our honeymoon destination of Stresa on Lago Maggiore in north-west Italy. Well that set the old mental wheels whirring into action, and I reviewed my imaginary list of things to do (we all have one), and there it was, number three, between visiting New Zealand and a cruise round the Norwegian fjords. Drive across Europe. This seemed a perfect opportunity to tick this one off the list. Now, I have driven in Europe before, but not to any great extent. There was the day trip in January 1998, when Janet and I took advantage of a special offer
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