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From Italy to London

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July 13th 2007
July 6, 2007 Today we left Italy and had to head back to Croatia to catch our flight back to London. The Tour de France starts in London this weekend and Jon is very excited to see it all. The Rijecka airport is actually on the island of Krk. We drove from Trieste, through Slovenia and then back to Croatia. There was a bridge to get to Krk Island. We checked out the little town of Krk. Krk was a ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia » Trieste

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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