A day at the beach 20140430_085551

April 30th 2014
We packed up then spent the whole morning at the beach. The beaches here build up enormously over winter and they use excavators and dozers to push all the sand back flat for the summer. The piles are so high that the beachfront restaurants actually build 2 metre high fences to hold back the sand then dig themselves out at the start of the summer season. We dug and carved into the sandpiles and ma ... 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

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Melissa Aspinall

Been There Licked That

In one courageous or completely out of our minds crazy leap my husband, our daughter and I have left our current place of residence, packed up our current lives and decided to take off to Europe for three and a half months. We have no set plans beyond a return ticket in and out of Paris, the first 8 days accommodation and a car lease for the remaining 90 something days. Anyone who knows me laughs at this because I am a planner. I usually travel knowing the day to day itinerary down to the minutest detail including where we might eat and exactly what train we will take. I am attempting ... full info

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