Flower's in Franca's garden

Dealing with the Italian Post Office

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April 24th 2009
With our apartment in Grenoble now booked, we need to send a postal order to the owner to hold the reservation. As well, Joshua left his red sketchbook of ideas (not unlike da Vinci's) in Florence and we need to send money to cover the mailing of it. The mission of the morning is therefore postal orders. The post office in Flaibano has only one person working there and there always seems to be ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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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