St Peter in Chains

Rome in a Day, another Way

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October 20th 2015
I needed to grab a cold water from the mini-frig in our room during the middle of the night (after consuming half a liter of wine the night before this “happy boy” was pretty thirsty). And I can hear Sharon saying now, “And whose fault would that be?” But now that I’m up, I worked on the previous day’s blog. It would be a shame to fall behind before getting on the Zuiderdam. By paying ... 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