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A trip to the Colosseum

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March 30th 2009
Still adjusting to the time change (that we had missed !) we slept in this morning. I went out to buy us some food and, without Evy's language skills, ended up doing a lot of gesturing (including a small pantomime of washing clothes in order to get laundry detergent). After breakfast we took a different bus from yesterday, and were quite quickly at a bus stop a short distance from the Colosseu ... 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