Cafe, Rome

Italy

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September 25th 2012
We arrived in Rome this morning and had to wait about an hour and a half for the bus to take us to the hotel. On the drive from the airport it is clear that Italy is not a place you want to drive. Traffic is bumber to bumber and at times it seems everyone is going the wrong way on a one way street. Motor scooters are darting in and out of traffic and riding down the center line between lanes of ca ... 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