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Ruins, Parades & Gelato - five days in the Eternal City

June 6th 2009
After having successfully disproven the theory that all roads lead to Rome, I ended up finally taking a budget flight there instead, from Catania in Sicily (monday 1st June). And what a flight it was - from the moment I took my seat to the moment I left the plane, there was a little shit screaming his lungs out in the row behind me! And although the first thing I did when the 'fasten seatbelt& ... 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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Having spent my whole life in Brisbane without so much as a week off work - much less an actual holiday - in six-and-a-half years, I suddenly decided (on my 27th birthday) that I'd had enough and needed to get a life. So I quit both of my jobs, moved out of my apartment, packed anything I could fit into my car, and three weeks later I hit the road. Over a thousand kilometres later I ended up in a tiny little town that I had heard about from a friend, with only one street, a few pubs, a few backpacker hostels and a beach. That day was the 1st of June, 2006... I haven't stopped travelling since.... full info

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