Molise

Ciao from Italy

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January 10th 2013
The longest way around is definitely not the shortest way home. In Doha the bus took 10 minutes to get to a hotel 500m away while in Rome the GPS made us drag all of our luggage 2 km to get to a hotel 200m from the station! Then in Venezia last night, the ticket lady for the boat bus told us which stop for us to get off and after more dragging of luggage, this time up and down bridges and through ... 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