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ROMAN HOLIDAY

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December 20th 2010
ROMAN HOLIDAY (NOT WITH AUDREY HEPBURN OR GREGORY PECK David and I headed for Rome to pick our Son up who was flying from Melbourne to Rome via Yes Heathrow. We had to leave the 3 others with David’s Aunty because the night before the snow had closed Autostradas and cars were trapped in traffic jams all night in the freezing cold. There were pictures on the news of families with little ... 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