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Tuscany roundtrip, Elba-Florence-Pisa

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May 9th 2009
The roundtrip started from our camping village in Valdarno (near Florence), which was shitty btw. Anyhow first we went to Piombine to take a ferry to Elba. No special sights so far, Elba itself was ok but nowhere NEAR Sardinia. In fact there were boats from the port to Elba and Sardinia, and I was playing with the thought to sneak on the other boat :D (No, not really Mr Fruit!) Later on we went t ... 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