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Italy 2009

Our camping is looking out to this island - the biggest in the lake, once inhabited but today it's more of a nature and cultural reserve, where no artificial munuring and pestides are used in the olive yard; and a forest of a particular kind of oak covers the Northern slopes of the island.

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Near the harbour, there is this map of the ilsand	The route we took is drawn on this map - a walk,...	The boat to the iland, in San Feliciano - we just missed...	The small harbour is guarded with a floating pier - a...	San Filicano, on the eastern shore of the lake.	The interiour of the castle - we couldn't enter it, it...
A small chapel outsside the castle walls.	The tower and buildings of the former monastry.	Too dangerous to enter? It's being restored at the moment...	Bolders on the lake shore	This is a single olive tree - not two separate ones.	Shrub in the woods
Oak trees - what makes the island famous	Some trees have a natural support....	....others need a manmade one to prevent them from...	View over the lake from the beach	The wooded Northern slopes	Oleander - starting to flower.
Fir tree - the kind you see so often, giving a lot of shade	Looking over the olive yards.	The catsle on our second approach, heading over the olive...	The castle wall. A couple of tourists were surpised by a...	A full view of the castle, from our picknick spot, at the...	Reed just a few meters away

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