I can't remember exactly how many stairs (we counted!) to our room which was on the top floor...but it was a lot, and they are marble, and they wind, and wind, and wind around...oh, boy...now I'm dizzy!
And We're off.....!!! June 3rd 2008 Well we're off.........!
We hit the airport in Edmonton @ 9:30am and were super excited to actually be going on a the holiday that had been in the works for quite awhile : )) From Edm-Toronto-Munich-Rome. Once we landed at Rome we exited to where all the drivers were waiting with signs held up.....hmmmm...where's ?? Oh, I see my name.....then there was the first problem. The driver we'd a ... read more
Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome 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