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I went to Italy because it was a time of year that I always like to be away from London, because my cousin was living near Milan, and because my girlfriend was in Perugia for a month. Apart from a couple of hours in Trieste on my way to Croatia earlier in the year, all I’d seen of Italy was Sicily, so I decided to do a little tour of the mainland.

The tour started in Lombardia. I stayed with my cousin in Varese, and we visited Como. I’d flown over the lake on my way into Milan, and it had looked pretty amazing from the air. We got the funicular railway up to Brunate, and walked along a hilly path high over the lake for a while. Lago Atitlán has been described as being like Lake Como but with volcanoes and I thought that was quite a reasonable description.