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The Great Train Debacle

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December 12th 2005
Well if you remember our last blog entry was written while we waited for the damn train workers to get their asses off strike. If only that was the end of our problems.. After spending the day at the train station in Nice we were informed, after waiting in line for 2 hours (twice) and given a million different answers, that there was infact a train to Florence leaving at 9:00pm that night. We w ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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