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Yet another holiday

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May 29th 2008
Everything is loud. and I seem to have spent most of my time following incomprehensible maps around incomprehensible streets, being hooted and beeped at - almost crushed out of the way. I’ts almost like being back in India. Almost... Palermo is louder and shoutier than I remember but it’s also more elegant. Well, some places are. The ones that pay their protection money that is... The others ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sicily

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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