Proscuitto for the pickin' at the Mercato Centrale

2 Days of Relaxation...ohm...

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September 27th 2007
We woke up on Wednesday feeling a bit beat up from all the walking and not nearly enough resting. I think we forgot we are supposed to be on vacation and we have 40+ days to see everything. We decided that since it was supposed to rain anyway for the next few days we would just stay nice and mellow in the apartment. I don't think we actually went outside until well into the "pomerriggio" (after ... 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