Phoebe at Lake Garda

Buon Giorno Italy!

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September 24th 2010
When I was young, about 11 years old, I had a best friend from Italy called Julie. She had come out to Australia with her Mum and three brothers when she was about two. One morning Julie's Mum, Gemma came to pick me up to take me to school. She was buzzing and Julie explained that she'd had a dream that I'd picked her lotto numbers and she'd hit the jackpot! Being highly superstitious, she was abs ... 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