Cruising the land in the 4wd

Time in Tuscany and elsewhere in Italy

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December 9th 2010
Our time in Italy this time around.... To hear Alicia tell the story (and I've listened to her tell people on Skype) you'd swear we were tortured mercilessly from dusk until dawn with waterboarding, burning blades, and dental drills during our time working on a Tuscan farm near Florence. This is not true. What did take place during our WOOFing (Working On Organic Farm) was that our hosts wer ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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