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19th – 22nd July Manfredonia

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July 23rd 2015
Writing this post lunch as tomorrow we leave for Pompeii on the east coast & it's a fair trek of around 200 km. (Ooh, I kid ye not – Frankie Howard, Up Pompeii! for those too young to know what I'm talking about) Sunday as expected was rammed! Cars were piling in from about 7.30am – so we stuck around Billy for the day, dozed, put a new inner tube in Cathy's bike & a few little jobs. We've be ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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