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Europe » Italy » Trentino Alto Adige » Male October 9th 2012

Dear Max and Dominic, Last weekend Justin and I took the train up into the mountains in the north of Italy to meet some of Justin's friends from Germany. The place where we stayed was about halfway between their city and ours. This part of Europe is very mountainous and the people that live here are a mixture of German speakers, Italian speakers, and speakers of another much older language called Ladin that comes from Roman times. It felt more like Austria, southern Germany or Switzerland than Italy. Even the houses were different, as you can see from the photo. Our valley didn't have any castles, but the main one had a castle every few miles, stuck to some craggy cliff like a limpet on a rock. I reckon this wasn't a very safe part of ... read more
Halfway up the Trentino Dolomites




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