Riviera Life(Caro Emerald) - Two Countries and a Principality in a Day-17th May 2016
May 17th 2016 We awoke this morning to the sounds of birds chirping happily away probably because the dark clouds of last night had disappeared overnight and there was a bright blue sky overhead.
We had various times given for the drive today to Rapallo from Google Maps and Gina. Both were avoiding the Autostrada or toll road which would have had us there in no time at all and of course we wouldn’t have seen
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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 
