Hotel and Car

Problems Driving and We Hadn’t Even Left The Car Rental

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August 8th 2009
After three years of long flights and a lot of moving around (see Not At All the Bangkok I Remembered, An Exciting New Country and We Just Wanted to go to Bed and The Immigration Controller From Hell, But Please Don’t Tell Her That), it was clear that we needed to head off a potential rebellion from the kids and go to somewhere closer to home this year. And this was even though one of them had i ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Peschiera del Garda

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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 establis... ... read more