Outrunning the eruption!

Pompeii & Naples

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November 16th 2014
Friday (14/11) It's not traveling on the weekends if we don't have to get up ridiculously early. So following this such pattern, we awoke at 3:30 am in order to catch our early morning train to Naples. We would have caught a much later one like we had planned to, but there was a national transportation strike that threatened to thwart our weekend adventure. But the early morning train wa ... read more

Europe » Italy » Campania » Naples

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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