A Venice Waterway

Palaces, Piazzas, Waterways... and Ice Cream

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July 27th 2013
Steve went to Venice a long (long) time ago, on a school trip, his lasting memories were that it was crowded and smelly and that his ice cream cost a fortune, for these reasons it hadn’t been one of the places he was keen to revisit. When we began to plan our route to Slovenia however, we realised it was pretty much on our way, we decided to make it a stopping point. Additionally, I’ve never b ... 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