Rialto Bridge - Venice

Episode II - the Griswalds lost in Europe

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June 12th 2005
Well we have left Prague and made our way down to Salzburg in Austria. It was unusually cold for this time of year but this did not deter the mighty travellers and we saw all the major sites and were treated to snow capped Alps from our apartment window. We also had a steam room and sauna session to burn off all the great food we had eaten. We left Salzburg and headed for Venice. It snowed on t ... 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