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Background: Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI established a Fascist dictatorship. His disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany led to Italy's defeat in World War II. A democratic republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 and economic revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC). It has been at the forefront of European economic and political unification, joining the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include illegal immigration, organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, sluggish economic growth, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the prosperous north.




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Day three: Vatican City tour then transfer to the ship. I had made arrangements with Angel Tours of Rome to have a private 4 hour tour of the Vatican museums, including the Sistine chapel, and St. Peters. They were then going to provide a driver to take us to the ship. I thought the driver was picking us up a the hotel, but when I went to prepay 3 days before we left the US, I was told that we had to get to the Vatican ourselves, unless we wanted to pay more. No problem. Our HOHO ticket was for 24 [View Full Entry]

debinnh - Deborah Neckorcuk | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 16th 2008 | 156 Views | [diary=345406]

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St. Peters Square
Trevi Fountain

Rome experienced a major rain fall in the early morning hours as a cold front came into the area. Some of the group, not yet time adjusted to the local time decided to arise early and make the most of the morning in Rome before we departed to catch the Pacific Princess in Civitavecchia. Rich found a coffee bar across the street from the hotel at the Esquilina Market (similar to Seattle’s Pike Place), with wonderful displays of fresh vegetables, fish and real butchers waiting to custom cut meats for customers. Two tasty cappuccino’s later, the day was off to a [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 4th 2008 | 99 Views | [diary=341668]

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Rich at Colleseum
Water is nice

Hiya everyone! I've just spent a lovely day in Civitavecchia. It's about 2 hours from Rome. I laid on one of the small beaches around the harbour, & sunbathed for a n hour but soon got itchy feet & went to explore! I was on my own as my cabin mate had a bit of a heavy night drinking & was still comotosed (or however you spell it?!) so I left her sleeping! I had a bit of a wander around the streets, got eyed up by the local italian men, but not fot my beauty I think but more the [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 15th 2008 | 132 Views | [diary=287621]


Day 11 Back in Rome Well the cruise has finished and when we set out we weren't sure whether we'd love it or hate it. The 11 days were enough to convince us that saving for another cruise would be well worth while. Maybe the Inside Passage in Alaska would be good. Many of the other passengers told us how they had enjoyed that. Some may say that we spent most our trip visiting old buildings etc and that's true. But they all have so much history about them and we thoroughly enjoyed the cruise and everything about it. 11 days [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 9th 2008 | 169 Views | [diary=274482]


The first of the cruise days and after killing some time around the neighborhood near our hotel, our hire car driver made good time (Italian drivers are maniacs) to the port city of Civitavecchia. Got through the security checks etc and boarded about 2.30 pm Much to our delight we had been upgraded from an outside cabin on the 1st deck to a cabin on the 5th floor with our own verandah. Mrs Burt got into a panic when our luggage failed to arrive after about 2 hours. We went for a pre-dinner drink and when we got back there were [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 30th 2008 | 57 Views | [diary=271481]

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