My room at B&B Ariel

July 15th - Taxi, no taxi

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August 1st 2012
July 15: Still not 100% but feeling much better about the state of my health now. Hopefully if I continue to take the stomach pills for the recommended 10 days I should be okay... fingers crossed. Well, four hour train ride, a coke and a large turkey & salad sandwiche haven't unhinged my stomach. The Italian countryside was beautiful; mountains, fields and then we went past lake Garda ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Verona

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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