Cherie and the waterbus

City Underwater

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October 21st 2006
Hello again! Well it was a long journey to get to Venice - 2 long days of travelling. We left Santorini on Thursday night and spent a long, sleepless night in Athens airport then finally boarded our plane to Rome at 9am. We kept ourselves busy doing crossword puzzles and talking to strangers! After a little wait for our train we were on our way to beautiful Venice. It was an awesome sight wh ... 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