Enjoying First Class

Not a very sucessful day in Florence

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August 19th 2010
We arrived in Florence and left the bags at the station. The hostel was half way between Florence and Siena so we planned to spend a few hours in Florence, get the bus to the hostel then in the morning continue on to Naples via Siena. The first mistake was that I left the memory card for the camera in the netbook in the bag at the train station so no photo's to share. I spent the day saying "lo ... 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