Ah, the ocean!

Day 17 - June 30 - Ocean, we missed you!

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June 30th 2010
As always, despite careful planning the next morning was a scramble. We were running late as it was, and then we didn’t have the right change for the Metro and had to go to a coffee shop with the slowest service, where the bartender insisted I sit down because of my pack and charged me $4 euro for my cappuccino. I was pretty convinced we were going to miss our train, but we made it to Termini, f ... 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