Deana, Hillary, and Me Hiking

End of May, Beginning of June...

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June 5th 2008
Well I titled the last entry “free fallin” but never got to the “free fallin” part of the entry! May 29th… we booked our Switzerland trip through a company called bus2alps. We all received an email that told us to meet at the train station at 730 pm at international departures. We were told that our guide, Sam, would be there to meet us. Well 730 turned in 8 and 8 into 830 and there was ... 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