Don't mention the war...especially Abyssinia

Admittedly, Italian history is not littered with stories of great war heroes. That old joke about who put the last bullet into Mussolini (twenty Italian sharpshooters) certainly rings true.

There is an impressive range of mountains that runs down the spine of Italy called the Apennines.

Try scaling them and then try telling me that Italy is spineless.

But let's not fight about it.