Amalfi Coast

The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

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October 4th 2009
Friday we got up and took the train to Salerno from Rome. There was a really nice couple from Northern California in our compartment and they were nice. They had just flown into Rome and weren't too impressed yet, though. We got off the train and had lunch in Salerno, a nice little town on the water. The weather was ok, a little cloudy, but it is a really nice town on the coast. We caught the ... 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