Goodbye Nice

Long trip to Verona

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June 19th 2015
We all slept in this morning, I had woken up at 5am couldn't sleep so did some writing until 7am then went back to sleep in Lexie's bed (she has sometimes crawled into bed with us) her bed was more comfortable than ours so it was a good sleep, we got on the road by 10.30 it is a long drive today, we are leaving France and going to Italy 7 hours driving if the roads are not busy. It was a good job ... 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