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Driving on the Autostrade

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July 11th 2007
Last Saturday was the day I had been dreading for a week. Tim and Ethan had to leave to go home, which was the primary reason I had been dreading it. The other reason was because I had to drive from the Malpensa airport in Milan back to Lake Garda. Their plane left at 6:00, which meant they had to be there at 4:00 to check in for an international flight, and there just aren't any trains and busse ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy

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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