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LBN - Lionel Benedict Nicolson Archive
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Ref No	LBN/1/1
Title	Italy 1925
Admin/Biog History	In the Easter school holidays of 1925, Nicolson was taken by his mother (Vita Sackville-West) and father (Harold Nicolson) on a holiday to Italy. This was only Nicolson's second trip abroad: his first visit was to Brittany two years previously. The family travelled on the Orient Express through Europe and stayed at a villa in St Vigilio run by the Walch family. The holiday started, for Nicolson, a life-long love of Italy.
Description	Includes Nicolson's account - written in a part story/part journal style - of a holiday to San Vigilio in April 1925. Chapter headings are as follows: -I: Coming home for holidays -II: The wonderful surprise -III: Crossing the Channel -IV: Paris and night through France (briefly mentions the hospitals from the Great War; travelling on the Orient Express) -V: Switzerland and its beauties (briefly mentions Le Chateau de Chillon; Lake Geneva & the Simplon tunnel) -VI: the last of the Orient Express (briefly mentions Lake Maggiore and Lake Como) -VII: Arrival at San Vigilio -VIII: In which we find that San Vigilio is one of the most lovely places in the world (briefly mentions the villa; Lake Garda) -IX: The next day (briefly describes climbing the mountain outside the house at San Vigilio with his parents) -X: Sirmione (briefly describes exploring the Sirmione peninsular with his parents) -XI: As time went on -XII: Round the Lake of Garda (briefly describes catching a steamer from Garda to Riva)
Date	1925
Level	File
Extent	1 journal
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Image Caption	Inside cover and first page of journal, April 1925