Soaking up some sunshine

Odyssey 2023 - Hallelujah! Blue skies at last!

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April 19th 2023
Much to our surprise and utter delight, by mid-morning today we spied blue skies and sunshine! What a welcome relief after days of dreary and wet weather conditions. We were even able to ditch our jackets by mid-day, when the air temperature poked its way into the low-to-mid 60s as we walked to the viewing point overlooking the Gulf of Naples. The crystal-clear air and the blue waters of the gulf ... 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