crossing rivers

From Bled via Vicenza to Milan Italy

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August 2nd 2014
We left Slovenia and the lovely place Bled, drove through tiny roads, you really cannot call them that, they are just one car wide, over mountain passes, that lucky enough were without snow although we did see snow on the Alps. The scenery again was like a nature movie. We had coffee at a mountain village where men sat around a table drinking wine and eating snacks. No English. We asked where are ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Milan

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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