Days 17 - 23 (26 Oct to 01 Nov) - one day Italy, next day France, then Spain, day at sea, then North Africa, back to Italy
October 26th 2013 First stop Genoa - Brendan, Nath, Roy and I hopped straight onto the hop on, hop off bus - Greg and Irene did their own thing. We took a pay lift (public transport - now that's unusual) up a hill and then picked up a funicular and rode it to a further peak, had coffee in a great little trattoria built in mid 1800s, were mind-blown by the fabulous views. Then we took the steep long funicular ri
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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 
