Court of the Pine

Cattle car train, Vatican Tour...way too many people

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October 9th 2013
We were up in time to see the Sox clinch the AL East title....YAY!!!!! If we were home, we'd have missed the celebration. We planned on taking the 7:06 train to get us to the Vatican by 8:10...our tour started at 8:30 am. We walked to the train station in a light drizzle, getting there in plenty of time, only to find the 6:44 train was delayed then cancelled, then the 7:06 was delayed 10 minut ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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