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New history of Rome's heyday - Pax - out now! Dinosaur lover. Stonehenge Tunnel hater. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times. Podcast: @theresthistory

Sep 6, 2020, 10 tweets

Time for a crack at an insanely high Italian peak...

War elephants, Balearic slingers, the works...

Quite glad I’m not getting attacked by Gauls...

120 metre tunnel, constructed between 1916 & 1917 beneath an outcrop of rock below the summit of Monte Crocione, built as part of the Italian defensive system along the Swiss frontier

I pass a man taking a goat for a walk

COME ON. ALMOST THERE.

Il vertice!

La bella Italia...

Dusk over Lake Como. Now all I’ve got to do is shimmy down the ascent before it gets dark, & I break my neck...

I return safely back to civilisation without falling down a ravine or getting eaten by wolves! An amazing day, even if I now feel shattered. Lake Como is quite as sublime as everyone says. A beautiful break from 2020...

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