Yours truly at the Trevi Fountain

Roman adventure

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August 13th 2009
I have to apologise for the slow rate of these stories, we've been having too much fun and with the limited internet access there isn't a lot of time to upload the stories. I'll try to catch up - Al 13 August Travelling now from Venice to Rome, it’s a long day of over 500km. The country side is getting drier and hotter, there’s even eucalypts in the fields, no koalas and it seems the locals ... 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