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Amalfi

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September 11th 2007
Hello everybody. Just about caught up with our blogs now...just a few more days to go. Today we went down to the town of Amalfi. The guy that owns the B&B we're staying in, Pino, drove us down, which is very nice, and saved me from being sick on the bus! I don't know if you can see them properly, but if you looked up Amalfi on Google Earth, try to find the roads there. They're phenomenal. ... 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