The sun finally breaks through in Venice

Drainage, Eli! Drainage!

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May 21st 2008
So one thing I forgot to add about France: We saw a KFC in Nice. That's not really a surprise given the number of Burger Kings, McDonalds, etc. in France, but the surprise for us was that it was called "KFC" not "PFK" like it is Quebec. Strange. And I just remembered a really funny story from Paris that I forgot to blog about earlier. Amy had the hiccups. She'd tried pretty much everything to g ... 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