Amalfi Drive 2

Italy

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October 7th 2012
We left Venice to head for Ravenna and Assisi. When we woke in the morning I was very ill. Gastrointestinal something with all the lovely stuff that goes with it. Ange and I ate exactly the same thing the day before and he was fine, so decided it had to be some kind of virus. It was a long bus ride so I just had to tough it out between rest stops. The poor people at the stops had to listen to me w ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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