Highway to Pisa

Eze, Pisa, Florence

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September 4th 2016
Off today to Italy. Nice is a lovely place to come back to. We passed the promenade where the bomb went off on 14th July, Bastille Day by "that radical Islamist Arsehole" killing a heap of people. There were flowers and memorials both sides of the road. Stopped at a perfume factory, well that was fatal. 323euro later, oh yeah. I have to say tho, this will last years because the perfume is not ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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