The Long And Winding Road

Part of the road from Urbania to Florence - note the "switchbacks" to enable traffic to climb up and down the mountains

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June 10th 2012
Sunday, 10th June, 2012 - Florence At 7:30 am this morning, we left for a day trip to Florence organised by Gail’s school – about 3½ hours away by coach. The trip there was through rugged mountainous terrain with lots of switchback roads to slow rise up the mountainous terrain, flat open country and high speed (110 kph) freeway. On arrival, we were taken to the lookout over the ci ... 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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