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Rome to Praiano

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August 25th 2007
This trip has truly been a masterpiece of precision planning and truly remarkable research: Remember all the fuss before we left, because all the hotels we had so carefully booked booked decided to deny all knowledge of our existence......? Well, just after we congratulated ourselves on catching the correct train from Rome, the (almost) correct bus to Latina with Senor Dickhead, the bus driv ... 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