View From Santuario Madonna di Lourdes

It's Very Crowded Under Juliets Balcony!

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September 8th 2013
The A4 motorway took us to our next stop in Lake Garda, as we motored we noticed that Italian drivers don’t indicate and as we stopped for coffees we noticed that Italian drivers stand at the counter in the fuel stations for a glass of white wine! How very different from South Mimms, the wine that is, not the lack of indicating. Coffees in Europe are so small too, is it just Britain and America ... 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