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Finally 111km

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September 12th 2017
It had previously been announced that we would have a new guide - Sandor - for today's ride, and we woke to something else that was new as well: blue sky - and it lasted all day (although once on high we could see storms in the hills across the valleys, so it was never clear that our good luck was going to last). While looking through my bag for the clothes to wear in today's ride I was reminded t ... 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