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A Day of Travelling

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May 24th 2009
We awoke to more suspected drilling… I was beginning to think there was a dental surgery located in the building. That aside we packed and went to breakfast remembering the camera to take pictures of the Uncle Bill friendly section. If I was a cartoon character a giant light bulb would turned on right above my head as I discovered the “drilling” was in fact the whirring of Italian coffee ... 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