San Gimignano

Karen and Jen's Italian adventure

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September 25th 2007
An interesting journey While Mick had to stay behind and go to work, I got organised and flew to Amsterdam, only to find that, due to a delay in my flight from Cardiff, I’d missed my connecting flight. I ended up spending the night at a hotel outside Amsterdam without my luggage before an early flight to Milan. I was really looking forward to getting my stuff and changing my clothe ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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