View from the bus to Sorrento

As we headed around many a sharp curve and up a mountain or two (seeing Vesuvius as we rode out of Naples), views like this appeared. It can be nerve-racking, but after many a trip to the mountains in the U.S., I felt pretty good about leaning into the windows and risking being tossed into the aisle (I'm also being a little dramatic).

Entering an Italian paradise

July 12th 2007
I write you from a somewhat swanky bar upon a laptop in Sorrento. I had begun a wonderful entry about it all and going back to Ravenna, but I didn't hit save as soon as I should. So sad! I'm even getting used to the keyboards here. But I'll see what I can re-create before I head back down the Via Corsica Italia (I think it is...the main drag here means more traffic. According to my Frommer's guid ... 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

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