View of Florence Duomo from apt terrace

Florence Sunday 10-7

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October 10th 2012
The start of our trip from Minneapolis was shaky as we had a 1.5 hour delay while Delta replaced a control panel on the plane. It stopped working after we boarded so we sat on the plane for 1.5 hours before the start of an 8 hour flight. They made up about an hour of that so we arrived in Amsterdam only about 45 minutes late. Luckyfor us we had a 3.5 hour layover as the Amsterdam airport was crowd ... 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