A Venitian scene

Italy part 1: Where the streets are always wet

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May 20th 2007
If you ever take an overnight European train, get there early and grab the bunks, cos they've got that much more width to make tossing and turning comfortable, without having to fear falling off the edge. We only just made our night train, and so were regulated to sleeping across the seats. Still (I write this in Cairo, after being on several Egyptian trains) there are worse ways to go! We left A ... read more

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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