Crazy Round Glass

Weekend in Venice

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July 30th 2006
Well I've just come back from a long weekend in Venice. It was blissfully hot and sunny (unlike London which is just muggyly hot, humid and grey - go figure). I arrived on Friday night and managed to land myself a room in a campsite on the mainland, one of my room mates was a soft spoken Canadian women, the other....... well I think she was Australian. She turned up round 1am when I and the Can ... 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