Chichen Itza plain around El Castillo

A bit weirdo

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September 11th 2014
Geo: 43.579, 11.2922A loud thunderstorm woke me today. It has been going all night and I quite like it. This morning we need to do a lot of travel planning and booking for the weeks ahead so spend a few hours on our devices. Hotels, car hire and flights were now booked for a week in France and then Sicily. We had booked a cooking lesson in Greve for the afternoon, La Cantina, so were both lo ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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