Ponte Vecchio

October 15th 2007
This was a free holiday courtesy of Opodo (website for British Airways, Lufthansa and seven other airlines) whose photo competition Gerry won! We stayed in the Villa Gabriele d'Annunzio Hotel, a former monastery a fair bit out of town in an area called Fiesole. The village of Fiesole is worth a visit as it is high up on a hill overlooking Florence and is a pretty place with some old Roman ruins. ... 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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Gerry and Denise Aitken

Gerry and Denise

Gerry is an Independent Reviewing Officer of children in care in Kent, England. Denise also works with children and in training. From 1st October 2004 we started travelling around the world for a year, first stop India, then SE Asia and on into Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Back to London after a stop in Los Angeles and then off to Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and up to Cuba. In November 2005 Gerry went to Uganda in East Africa for 6 months to work with some old friends who run a project called 'Uganda Family Resource Link' working with childre... full info

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