the pathway down

Bad Note-taking

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October 15th 2014
The last blog was the first time I let Ross edit it ahead of time and he missed a big one. Left out Taormina and the steep climb - I completely left out the steepest walk. We had left San Giovanni de la Punta and we did head to Capri Leone but on the way we stopped at Taormina. I was excited because it has a great pedestrian walkway loaded with shops. We decided to do the walk UP to Castelmola fir ... 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