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On the Road Again - Venice - Part 2

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August 29th 2008
Sunday 27 July - Friday 8 August 2008 After eight days on the road we crossed over the border and found ourselves in Northern Italy, near Lake Como. A couple of things stood out straight away. Firstly, the traffic was terrible. The ‘main’ roads as marked on our maps were narrow, potholed, unmarked and backed up with all sorts of traffic. In all, we saw three fairly serious accidents during ou ... 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