The Plastic, Glittery Towers Weren’t a Substitute For Not Climbing It
August 17th 2009 Pisa was somewhere that we really wanted to visit so we drove down there. It was then that we discovered that it was over 300km away, but we had kind of set our minds on, so we carried on regardless, albeit with the experience of the drive to the Dolomites (see Following The Exodus Back to Germany) still fresh in our minds. This drive went quite well, although the motorway meant missing the idylli
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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 
