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Rome. Day 1

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June 5th 2013
We had a long 12.5 hour flight from Singapore and even though we left at 1 am we didn't get much sleep. We got dinner and breakfast on the flight. Scrambled eggs yummy! We arrived in Rome at 8 am, collected our bags; mine was last again! Then we looked for a man with our name tag, he drove us to our hotel Hotel Romae. It took about an hour and the traffic was busy and there are some tiny cobbl ... 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