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Spring Break

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March 10th 2008
Ahoj! It started at 1:00 am. I got a taxi around then and proceeded to the train station a little outside of the city. Around 1:45 I caught a train from Florence to Bologna, where I changed trains at 3:15. Besides being sketched out by random older men in my first train car, I met 3 very nice American guys studying in Greece on their way to Milan who let me hang out in their train car from Bologna ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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