Taking a sip

Rome

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May 5th 2007
Rome has been amazing! To tell you the truth it had to grow on me, when I first got out of the station I just didn’t feel that ‘Wow I’m in Rome!’ first impression was that I could probably be anywhere else in the world, and most likely, it would be somewhere near a toilet! Yes Rome smells, A LOT! I had travelled down from Florence with Sabina, one of my room-mates there and as we were st ... read more

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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