ELBA

ISOLA D ELBA

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May 14th 2011
ISOLA D ELBA We got invited away for the weekend to go to elba with David’s family; the local soccer club from pallerone was going. Little did we know when we said yes was we would have to get up at 4AM. We have to be up at 6.45am to take the kids to school, but not 4am. We made it and in typical Italian style the bus was meant to leave at 4.45am and around 5.45 it left, I don’t even ... 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