Ponte Rialto

Where we're going, we don't need roads...

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June 21st 2010
We had an easy flight from Barcelona to Venice. Gigi was a bit nervous about not knowing any Italian. We had done really well at speaking Spanish in Spain. Chris is really able to pick up the language very fast and Gigi knows plenty of Spanish vocabulary. Once at the Venice airport, the only way anywhere is to take a boat ride called the Alalingua. We bought our tickets and made our way ... 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