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Day 7 27th May Bellagio-Lake Viverone via Lake Orta (it was a long way round!)

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May 27th 2011
Day 7 27th May Bellagio – Lake Viverone via Lake Orta (the long way round) Our last evening in Bellagio was one full of electrical storms that rolled around the lakes and mountains. Hours and hours of sheet lightening and heavy rain preceded a very short night’s sleep in the lorry – safe in the knowledge that our four tyres would surely save us from uncertain death we tried to hunker down ... read more

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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