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Island hopping in the Mediterranean

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June 4th 2017
The Italian adventure continued on Sun when I met Shweta on Capri. She had booked us a very nice hotel called the Weber Ambassador down on the southern side of the island (Marina Piccolo). Capri (with the accent on the first part of the word not the second like the pants), is a fairly small island (1/2-1/3 the size of Ischia) with a TON of hills. The whole island really is a mountain with shops an ... read more

Europe » Italy » Campania » Capri

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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