Chris battling with the crowds at the Roman forum

With Lonely Planet in hand. After five months of travelling we really don't care if we look like tourists.

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Rome

August 10th 2007
Rome deserves its own entry because it's a fantastic city with many a ruin to explore. You virtually cannot move in Rome without tripping over a ruin. We flew from London to Rome which took longer than expected because our flight was delayed at Heathrow (not suprising to anyone that has flown from Heathrow recently). The first thing we noticed about Rome and Italy was the intense heat. Lond ... 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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