Naples from too high up to think about

Amalfi magical mystery tour: aka lunacy

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January 14th 2016
Wow! Don't make this trip at night or when you are tired or intoxicated! It is crazy, wild, gorgeous, crazy crazy! cars are not designed to have side mirrors when they pass within a hairs breadth of each other, walls and precipices either side. From Naples (Napoli) onwards the roads soared above the coast, scaling the volcanic mountains (remember Pompeii), descending into tortuous turns and inhabi ... 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