View from rear of apartment

First day

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May 4th 2016
'We're here! Went to bed about 11 PM after an ungodly (probably countable if I tried to figure it out) number of hours awake or snoozing on the plane and walking around airports, standing in lines, although in Italy, lines take on a round, mobbish shape, pressing forward. We stumbled on a great restaurant last night and ate a huge salad plus polpetti (round shapped, deep fried, meatball-like bits) ... read more

Europe » Italy » Calabria

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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