The view from our balcony in Verona

Milan - Verona - Venice - Bologna - Rome

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May 22nd 2009
Milan - Verona - Venice - Bologna - Rome Milan We arrived in Milan after a very long but non eventful flight (Bex only got nervous twice, once when the in flight entertainment system said we were heading right over the top of Baghdad and the other when the young middle eastern man sitting behind us started pacing the isles, all pale and sweaty). We survived it though, and ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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