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A bad combination - cheap wine and limoncello

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October 4th 2006
Geo: 42.6443, 12.2299Exhausted. Less than 5 hours sleep last night. It's like I'm in Calgary all over again! I think I'll need a nap later. The dreary and rainy weather doesn't exactly invigorate me, either. Perhaps an early morning gelato is in order, as a pick-me-up. Took the train to Orvieto then a bus to the Duomo. As the bus came out of a narrow alleyway onto the Pi ... read more

Europe » Italy » Umbria » Orvieto

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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