A real Roman!

This guy is actually lifting his hand up telling me to put my camera away - I think they charge for photos. Looks like I'm a bit of a photo theif then!

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When in Rome....

August 10th 2007
When in Rome, do as the Romans do? Kristian and I pondered about this saying the whole time we spent in Rome, looking around us wondering what exactly it was that the Romans do to inspire such a saying. It turns out, thanks to Kristian’s post-travel research, that it was just some discussion among priests about proper fasting behaviour in Italy’s different cities that inspired our modern adage ... 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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