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March 29th 2012
Day from Hell Waking up at 3:00 am is not so much fun as staying up to 3:00 am. The phone rang and soon we were out of the room and in the lobby waiting for breakfast. At four the hotel provided coffee, tea, cereal, warm milk and packaged rolls with jelly. After a couple of cups of coffee I headed to the head and took a header as I missed a stair. The rating was 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. Once ag ... read more

Europe » Italy » Marche

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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