Wayne's dessert at lunch

Day 36 - Florence to Rome

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September 23rd 2018
We had our normal mediocre breakfast and checked out of the hotel in plenty of time for our 10:40 train to Rome. The station in Florence is crazy at the best of times, standing room (and not a lot) only and definitely nowhere to sit. We got there early, have we mentioned how Wayne likes to be everywhere well beforehand? Standing in the crush in temperatures already in the low 30s was not much fun ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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