Meanwhile...

While the others took forever to tour the church I found a spot in the shade. I sat on the church steps for close to 45 minutes. I was well entertained by the illegal sunglasses vendors that set up outside the church. Just like the guys we had seen elsewhere the night before, these guys knew just when the cops were coming and put away their cardboard tables and merchandise just as the fuzz drove by.

Day Four (Tuesday)

June 27th 2006
On our previous stay at the Hotel Palazzo Vecchio we were given a beautiful room on the ground floor. I remember the air conditioner being almost too cold. This year with me being in a single room and having a gigantic suitcase I of course had a room three flights up. Worst of all, it had no a/c. Well, it had a unit but it basically just blew in th ... 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

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