Finally There!

Northern Italy: Spectacular!

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January 29th 2010
We were finally in Italy, and even though it was a cold snowy bastard of a day, I couldn't believe that I was actually going to see fair Verona. You know, where Shakespeare laid his scene! Two star cross'd lovers and all that jazz! The day didn't start off well, as we needed to use the internet for a couple of banking and blogging reasons. We stopped at McDonald's, fine. We finally found a powe ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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