Train

We were waiting for this train at the terminal in one of the villages, to begin our journey back to the ship. We walked in, but rode out by rail. The trains roar in every few minutes and are used by nearly all residents of Cinque Terre for their daily traveling. Imagine the isolation of these villages in the days before rail travel!

Cinque Terre

April 20th 2005
After a long delay, we're baaack! Sorry to be so long dropping the other shoe and finishing up, but things just had to be prioritized after our return to the US. One of the last places we visited on our world cruise was the coast of northern Italy, where the boot of Italy joins the European body. Venice was on the eastern side of the boot top, and our new destination - Porto Venere - was on ... 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

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