interlaken

Home in Rome

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October 12th 2005
i'm back, where i am now at liberty to upload pictures and write to my heart's content about switzerland. b/c my internet time is limited, i'm going to do this by describing my vacation one day at a time. first i will tell you how we traveled to switzerland. we had sleeper car reservations, and b/c we had never dealt with the trains at termini before, we got there about 3 hours early. so we ... 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