Claire and I inside the Colesseum

Roma: Part 2

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June 19th 2006
After managing to get to the Athens airport and from the Rome airport to my hostel all by my lonesome, i managed to catch up with my cousin Claire and her boyfriend Sam. Not before falling headfirst into the pavement after tripping up a kerb, very embarrassing but i have some scars to show for it so its ok. That day we wandered around Rome, i showed Sam and Claire the Roman Forum and the Coleseum ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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