Passports?

Did Anybody Get Our Passports?

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April 23rd 2015
As much as we enjoyed Rome, when you are in the city you put up with a certain amount of chaos. After all that chaos, we were ready for some peace and quiet ... in Tuscany. We rose early, had breakfast and caught a taxi to the train station, where we arrived in time to have a leisurely cup of coffee before our fast train departed for Florence. As we enjoyed our coffee, Karen suddenly aske ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » San Casciano in Val di Pesa

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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