Sorrento

Last stop on the Mediterranean tour!

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June 6th 2017
This is my last blog of the trip, and though I started it on the plane ride home (so hard to find time to blog on such a busy trip!), I'm finishing it sitting in my house in Washington, very much missing the sunny 70s-80s weather, and all the Italians! They really are my people. Pushy and all 😊 Our final adventure started in Sorrento. It's connected to Naples by land, but it's on a bit ... 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