Dubrovnik port

Croatia to Bari, Italy

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October 11th 2010
We set sail for Italy on Saturday morning from Croatia. We said goodbye to Ivan our kind host of the last few days and boarded our boat at 9.30am. We left the port at 1.30pm.... We were told to arrive 2 hours prior so that border control and ticket issuing could be completed in an orderly fashion. There was nothing orderly about it, trying to board a gigantic ferry with about 500 Italians is anyth ... read more

Europe » Italy » Apulia » Bari

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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