Spanish Steps

Another huge gathering place. Can't really see the attraction, but its been happening for hundreds of years. They are just staring at shops across the street. At least in Trafalgar Square there are statues and fountains and a whole square.

Rome 7th-10th May

May 7th 2003
This was my first trip into Europe, apart from England, and my first experience of travelling alone in a country where English is not spoken. It did make me feel a little intimidated and I made sure to eat and drink in tourist areas where I felt more comfortable expecting everyone to understand me without me making any effort at all to speak Italian. The thing that is always at the forefront of ... 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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