I love seeing land!!

The Passage to Italy

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July 13th 2008
I am incredibly exhausted!!!! I have never experienced anything like this two day, two night passage to Italy. We left Ithaca Friday morning around 9am, and planned on reaching Reggio Calabria, Italy, on Sunday morning around 10 or 11. Our first day and night were uneventful. It was just trying to get into the swing of things. Learning the responsibilities of being on watch, how to use the nav ... 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