Rob & Me

The Relatives

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January 11th 2010
Geo: 42.4215, 14.2873Off the ferry and onto the A14 Autostrada, once we found it..With a scribbled map of where my aunties house was we headed into the village of Francavilla. After a couple of laps around the village i decided to ring the house and Uncle & Aunty came and picked us up.It was great to spend the next 6 days with my long lost cousin Robert and his new family. It has been 29 yea ... read more

Europe » Italy » Abruzzo

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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