Girls on Gondola

Gondolas

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April 5th 2008
After a fairly restless night (which I won't go into), Ly and I (and Gajal) finally got ourselves together and headed to breakfast around 8:45am. It was a pretty nice breakfast, we had 3 choices for bread this time (crunchy, croissant, or roll), our own coffee/capuccino machine, juice, and milk/cereal...not too bad. We loaded up for the exciting day ahead and went off to explore some more of Veni ... 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