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Sicily...Not for the Faint of Heart

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October 16th 2007
Today was our day on Sicily - the huge island right at the tip of the boot of Italy. We docked in Palermo and decided to take a double-decker bus tour. Again, this is sometimes the best way to see a city in such a short period of time. We won’t lie…we did not care for Palermo at all. It was smelly, crowded, hot and poor. We stumbled into some very unsavory neighborhoods looking for the ch ... 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