Joshua drives the tractor

Our final day in Italy

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May 4th 2009
We got a reasonably good start to the day today, heading down to the post office to do some final mailings. After this we had lunch and finished packing and weighing suitcases (we are flying to France) as well as cleaning up the house. In the afternoon, Joshua and Benjamin joined Luigi in the fields and spent the afternoon cutting hay with the tractor. The weather has turned very summer like, t ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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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