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Day Trip on Lake Como

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June 24th 2016
Today adventure is an afternoon boating on Lake Como. 34 degrees today so we have hired a boat for 4 hours and having a picnic lunch on Lake Como. We rent a boat from Varenna then boated down to Lierna across to Vassena up to Bellagio down to Lezzeno across to Isola Comanacina up to Santa Abbondio across to Bellano then back to Varenna. What an amazing place with the mountains as a backdrop and th ... 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