Eating out with friends in Rome

September 24th 2010
Thirty years and two days ago, I first set foot on Italian cobble stoned soil and began the third phase of my life—the first phase being birth til marriage in 1959 and the second being my marriage whose end was marked by my trip to Italy with Liam who was 6 at the time. This third phase was to be my attempt to escape from my mother’s cold German heritage and explore the warmer, Romantic nature ... 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

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Julia Normand

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I'm making a 30 year anniversary trip to Italy in mid-September. I'm mainly going to Reggio Calabria, an area I've never been before. I want to see "I Bronzi," two incredible Greek statues that were discovered in the water off Riace back in 1980. I was 40 when I went to Italy the first time, so you do the math on how old I am now. This is sort of a test to see if I can still hack it. The HoustonJulia moniker is because I live in Houston ALASKA.... full info

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