View of the river (& Sue)

More Florence...

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September 7th 2007
Hello everybody. I'm very cranky because I typed up a massive blog and then it deleted everything except for "Hello everybody"...the only bit I hadn't had to think about. So I'm going to do it all again. With reduced enthusiasm. Sorry it's been so long between posts, it's quite difficult to find internet cafes where we've been. Hopefully I won't get too confused with what day we did wha ... 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