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Sicily 2022 part II - I just had to visit Corleone

December 25th 2022
One ancient tomb, several ancient temples, one ancient fortress and one not so ancient ghost town This blog entry covers most of the places I visited in the second half of this trip in Sicily. When I look through the pictures I see that there are a lot of historical (ancient) places there. But there is some other stuff in there too so hopefully there is something for people who are n ... 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

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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16th June 2023

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

All around Sicily
We enjoyed our time in Sicily... the ancient ruins are magnificent. For us, we thought the towns were dirtier than on mainland Italy and we found the people overly assertive. Fortunately, it didn't ruin our trip.

21st June 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I guess I am used to dirt...
I didn't notice that the towns were dirty. But then I almost never do unless a place is really filthy. I guess I have been to so many dirty places that I have gotten so used to it that I no longer notice. /Ake

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