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We arrived back home this morning after over 35 hours in transit, with barely any sleep. Needless to say, we are tired and dazed. A good night’s sleep will make all the difference. In starting to unpack my suitcase I see brochures from places like the bateau mouche in Paris, or from Chenonceau Chateau, or about [...]
Continue reading...More photos from Orta
4. June 2007
I’ve added some more photos from Orta. The new photos were taken with my camera. I’ve also included the photos already loaded (taken and sent from my Nokia N95 phone). As you can probably tell, I absolutely loved Orta, and the area around it! The photos are here: Orta photos (one option from there is to click on [...]
Continue reading...At the end of week 1 – Lago d’Orta, Italy
26. May 2007
We’re at the internet point in the hotel in Milano, right across from the Stazione Centrale, cooling down. I had hoped to upload some more pictures, but we’re typing this on the hotel computer instead. We decided to come to Milan earlier than planned to be sure we could find the station in time for our [...]
Continue reading...TGV
23. April 2007
We’re looking forward to traveling on the TGV high speed trains. We will be traveling in one day from Milan to Paris (about 7 hours) then from Paris to St Pierre des Corps (near Tours) (about 1 hour), and then there will be another trip from St Pierre des Corps back to Paris. On the [...]
Continue reading...Lago d’Orta, Italy
20. April 2007
Look in the travel guidebooks on Italy, or even on the Lakes District of Italy, and Lago d’Orta will usually be covered in only a paragraph or two. Yet, the volume of words there is no indication of the beauty of the place. Orta.net says that it’s "the most romantic lake in Northern Italy, which [...]
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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September 4, 2010, 4:15 am
 Showers 16°Creal feel: 13°C
current pressure: 1026 mb
humidity: 63%
wind speed: 18 km/h ESE
wind gusts: 14 km/h
sunrise: 6:10
sunset: 17:39
| September 3, 2010, 7:15 pm
 Sunny 23°Creal feel: 22°C
current pressure: 1018 mb
humidity: 40%
wind speed: 11 km/h ENE
wind gusts: 11 km/h
sunrise: 7:10
sunset: 20:29
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14. June 2007
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