Me, in Tuscany

Fiorenze

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April 2nd 2008
By this stage of the journey, the days have started to muddle, so let's dispense with the need for Day titles shall we? I must say that despite the rushing around, i did manage to maintain some level of aweness of where we were and where we had been, keeping it real. Anyway, after falling down the stairs on the way to breakfast in Sorrento - nothing broken, just brusied knees and some giggling ... 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