Outside Hotel Amadeus - what a crowd?

Back to Venice

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September 20th 2009
Friday 18th Sailing all day up the east coast of Italy, back to Venice. Joan had her hairdo, and in the afternoon had an acupuncture treatment (at my insistence - nothing to lose) for her back pain and a massage. Joan is a sceptic, but she said the acupuncture result was great and the massage by the Chinese lady acupuncturist the best she had ever had!!!! Makes me very happy! As the end ... 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