Day two of Rome on the BBA and Gretchen's8(which turned into 10)stop tour
October 18th 2009 Sunday 18th October
Day two of Rome on the BBA and Gretchen’s 8(which turned into 10) stop tour.
We are as warm as toast inside our mobile home with the heat pump churned up to 25C all night. But a glance out the window at first light indicates that today might just be a bit cooler than yesterday and cloudier.
We were ready to hit out for the city about the same time as yesterday. And just as w
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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 
