On the train

Between heaven and hell?

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October 10th 2008
Naples has a bad reputation as a rough town with a rubbish problem. Much of this is true, my first impressions of the city were not particularly good: Noise, rubbish, decrepit buildings, noise, no parks - NOISE! Geee-ssus gaaad man! It's so loud, ambulances screaming all over the city at all hours of the day. I swear if I wasn't blessed with a saintly temprement I would have hated it. But, I lik ... 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