"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go." - Truman Capote
July 10th 2006 If I don't come home in August, it is because I have run away to Venice.
We came in by train to Venice on July 4th. No fireworks for us this year. Once we got into Venice, we had to take a waterbus to Lido where we stayed. We had dinner and stood outside one of the many open air cafes with the Italians to watch the German-Italy game. We were totally going for Germany (silently, as not to p
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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 
