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The Como weekend
Driving southeast from Germany, through Switzerland towards Italy, the Italians reach you before you reach Italy. In a service area near the Swiss-Italian border, the small grey-haired lady behind the...
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A curious old town
[Part 2 of the Como series] In 1867, during his travels in Europe, Mark Twain visited lake Como. He writes, in The Innocents Abroad, that he reached “the curious old town of Como, at the foot of the...
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The feast of the Madonna
[Part 3 of the Como series] On Sunday, we decided to first visit the small church in our town, Lezzeno, before continuing to Bellagio. Visiting the church on a Sunday morning is a fast-disappearing...
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In search
By afternoon, tired of Como of walking, talking, eating, drinking, clicking full to the brim my senses numb I sought that elusive something for the soul. In the museum, amid Greeks, Romans, Egyptians,...
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