Our lunch stop in the mountains

Day and night skiing

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February 21st 2018
A shorter blog today as we have just got back from a meal up in the mountains and skiing back to the hotel at night with head torches to guide us. The run we took down is a wide blue, which had been prepared by the piste bashers so it was in near perfect condition. The ski was cloudless and we had a quarter moon and the stars were all out as we headed down from close to the top of the mountain. In ... 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