The Ice-cream Selection Provided The Opportunity For Some Photography Time
August 13th 2009 After the adventures of the last couple of days, today was another relaxing day by the pool.
In the evening, we drove to a very picturesque little town on a narrow spur of land jutting into the south of the lake called Sirmione. We had a walk around the castle and some Roman ruins, which were, unfortunately closed by the time we got there. The main attraction, at least for our two kids that is,
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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 
