Wendy toiling up

In the mountains by Lake Como

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April 5th 2008
5 April 2006 On another fine day we took the bus into the mountains behind Menaggio to Bregalia. From there we did a 2 ½ hour walk to the Refugio Menaggio situated at 1400m below Monte Grona. The ascent was steep and rocky and Wendy found it quite hard so we didn’t continue to the summit. When we got back down to Bregalia we found that the bus we needed didn’t run on a Saturday, but fortuna ... 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