Mt Vesuvio

Episode III - It's getting hot here!!

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June 18th 2005
Well, since the last episode we have travelled from Rome to the Amalfi Coast and now we are in Florence. Before we got to Amalfi, we stopped off at Mt Vesuvio (the volcano). The walk to the top from the car park is quite a long way, but well worth the effort. This is some hole in the ground and you can see small pockets of sulphur gases escaping. It was raining when we started our walk and hot whe ... 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