Oh!

Roma!

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February 4th 2007
I am trying to think of how to start this...somehow it seems like so much happened in a week, and yet I'm not sure what to talk about. So, I guess I'll just start writing. Thursday afternoon I bought a red bike! It has a bell and everything...quite cute. Now I'm learning how to bike through Florence without meeting my doom. I've been getting lost trying to find all the bike paths through t ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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