Our view for lunch - first meal in Italy = pasta and rissotto! we want more already!

September 8th 2011
Ok so this is the brief run down... We made it to Barcelona, but we did get robbed!! $22 EURO for a stein of sangria EACH just cos we drank it outside on the 'terrace' (the footpath that i bet they pay NO rent for!!!!) and that didn't even include the actual stein, we had to give that back when we were done! we must at least have shares in the 'terrace' surely, if any paperwor ... 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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Manda Maree

And we are off... FINALLY! Three girls, europe, friends, food, drink, sights, shopping... what more could I possibly say? Just on five weeks to cram in all of this in a number of different locations - a mission we are more than willing to attempt!! We are under no illusions that we will be able to come home & say we have seen anywhere near enough of that side of the world, this is more the trip that we use to do the recon to plan our following trips!!!! So as you will read & see we will quite quickly make our way through parts of Spain, a bit of France, mainly the top of Italy, Paris (of... full info

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12th September 2011

Richard Hogan
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cool pic... cool place ay!??
Classic... Kasey and I had lunch around this same spot in Milan. But the street behind you was full of marquees for the Milan Fashion week (which we missed by a few days unfortunately)... We just loved Milan!!!!

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