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When in Rome...

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September 30th 2011
We finally got here! jrod took us on the scenic route to get to the hostel but we stopped and had a nice mozzarella tomato pizza thing on the way. my pack feels like it weighs 100 pounds, oh well good exercise! i found out what a hostel is like, same as the movie but without the killer. its summer here 28 degrees, so walking the "scenic" route was definitely a sweaty mess. ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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