Herbie!

My Weekend in Italy

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May 13th 2012
Hello again! This weekend was my first proper one in Italy and I was very busy. On Saturday after I finished work at 1.30pm, Ashley and I went to see a classic car show that was happening near where I lived. It was very humid so after we thought we would treat ourselves to a gelato as we had cycled there! Nom nom nom! Today we went to Turin which has a lot of random things to do and see (inc ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Ivrea

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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