Italy 80 - Malcesine, a load of behemoths, a story about the money in your pocket
September 23rd 2014 We had no idea if we would get on the next boat. It could be exactly the same, full to the gunwhales with Riva boarders and we could still find ourselves stuck in Limone. At the back of my mind I remember some self hire boats. No good for us but beyond those was a boat which plied its trade between Limone and Malcesine and there was the off chance they would take us across. Luckily they were leav
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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 
