On top of the mountain

It's a lago!

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July 19th 2008
Verbania is beautiful! Today, we woke up kinda later in the morning (hooray for sleeping in!) to find Parker and Paolo sitting outside at the stone table, eating some cheese and bread and fresh coffee while chatting about something or another. Sooner or later, we four joined them for a wonderful breakfast. We decided that today's plan was to head to a wilderness area 30 minutes away and hike u ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Lake Maggiore

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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