Night time view, Isola d'Orta

Eindhoven to Orta

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July 2nd 2016
French toast for the last breakfast with the Hornungs, Frank decided. We had a hilarious trip to the Albert Heijn supermarket with Dorine to shop for the ingredients we needed. It was amazing! You swipe your card and pick up a scanner as you enter the store and scan everything yourself as you put it in the trolley. I felt like I had shot forward in time about 50 years - very sci-fi. Anyway, it was ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Orta San Giulio

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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