view from our room

Wrong date on our train tickets and Loving Cinque Terre

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August 23rd 2011
Another travel day… Needed a cappacino badly once we got to Ventimiglia, Italy, which is a town just over the border. Ordering was quite difficuly because we know absolutely no Italian. We got on the train to Genova and shared a cabin with 4 Italian guys about our age who were heading home to Milan after a 1 month backpacking/camping tour of Europe. They were quite animated and talked very fast, ... read more

Europe » Italy » Liguria » Cinque Terre

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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