Neptune

Fun in Firenze

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June 18th 2007
We arrived in Florence late in the afternoon, and we checked into possibly the worst hotel either of us had ever stayed in! We headed out for dinner and Karaoke on our first night out which was funny - although neither of us got to sing much to Kim’s disappointment (not… haha). The streets in Florence were like nothing else we’d seen before, very distinctive. They are extremely narrow (whic ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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