Pompei

The structures of the buildings survived being buried in ash for hundreds of years. Among other buildings, we walked through an old brothel with suggestive paintings above the doors to each room. If you watched the rutted streets around the town closely you could find directions to the brothel pointed out with male sexual organs.

Life in Calabria pt II

April 17th 2008
Morgan and i took six hours of trains to Rome the day before Dad and Eddie were to arrive. We arrived in the afternoon and walked to our hostel(10.90/night) hotel Lodi. it was a 20 minute walk from Termini Station. We should have taken a bus but it was a nice day. The owner, Fabrizio, greeted us and showed us around. He also made us coffee and gave us grapefruit from the hotel's garden. We spent ... 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

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