Leaving the Rome airport

Day 1

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January 24th 2007
I'm officially in Rome! Our flight over was uneventful. Everything went smoothly, and we got to our buses without any problems. Our "housing agent," John, showed us to our apartment. We had to climb a hill up to the door to our building. Our apartment in on the 2nd floor, even though in Italy it's the 1st. The elevator was broken, so we had to carry all our bags up a very narrow flight of stairs. ... 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