How twee can we be?

Very! I expected to hate Venice (crowds, commercialism etc). it has all the negatives but I loved it!

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May 30th 2012
K - our final overnight ferry of the trip brought us from Split to Venice which fully lived up to its hype. Yes it was crowded and packed with tourists but despite this I found that St Marks Square and the Grand Canal fully lived up to their billing. We didnt go into the Doge's Palace, we were just too cultured out, but instead spent hours walking around the small streets finding little bars s ... 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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