The morning view

The inside of clouds

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February 19th 2018
The clouds which had started to form yesterday had firmly camped over Aprica by the time we woke up. We had our breakfast and headed off to the slopes in the hope that during the climb up we would rise above them. This did not happen and the cloud was still present 900 metres above the town. We decided to try the run we enjoyed the previous morning but the visibility was down to a few metres in pl ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy

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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