San Gimignano

Arriving at the Farmhouse

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March 6th 2010
(Saturday March 6) Last day in Rome. We left very early (10am :-) and headed to the Fiumicino airport to pick up our rental car. Our cab driver was a young guy who spoke very little English. I tried to tell him in my best Italian that we wanted to go to the Hertz rental car counter at FCO airport. Unfortunately when I said "affitare macchina" it somehow translated to "I want to rent your taxi" at ... 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