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Episode Four - 'Buongiorno from Rome'

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December 9th 2008
Hi all. First of all a big thank you to everyone that has emailed their lovely comments about the blog. It has been great to get some positive feedback and it's nice to see that people are actually reading it! Since we last spoke we have been to Santorini and back, and we are now in the Italian capital of Rome. On Friday the 5th we got up at 4:45am and caught the Metro to the port of Piraeus for ... 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