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Climbing in the Dolomites  
   

Climbing in the Dolomites

This was great, but I was puffed out at the end of the day!
Dolomites!

March 5th 2007
Well I couldn't believe it either! The Italians named a part of their mountains after a dodgy British car! The Triumph Dolomite. No sooner do I get over that shock than I realise the town I'm in is called Cortina D'Ampezzo!!! I swear I'll find the glass mountains been renamed the Allegro... I finally got to do some climbing today, well only a little climbing, mostly walking. I've hooked up ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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