Istanbul

Umbrella STORMS

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November 19th 2009
When we arrived in Istanbul it was very windy and seemed like every street corner had someone selling Umbrella for 5TL (about $4 OZ) I bought one the second day and by the time we left Venice we had three. One that Rose gave us and one that we found. At every port we saw bins of broken Umbrellas - a sign that a storm has swept through the region. ... 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