Jeff and I in Rome

When in Rome...

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October 17th 2009
Ciao (hello) to the outside world! Im alive and finally writing on the computer again. These past three weeks have been rather a whirl-wind of seeing family and friends in Italy and Germany, and even though Im kinda sick with a cold that I caught from Gabri, I couldn put off writing anymore. So now Im cozy here with a piece of marzipan and a cup of tea, and semi-watching the movie Stranger Tha ... 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