Looking down on our Veranda

And We're off.....!!!

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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

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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