Our Italian Friends

I went into the Internet cafe for about five minutes, and when I came out, Phuong was sitting at a table full of older Italian folk! They were so funny, but they didn't speak a bit of English (nor us Italian...).

Shopping and Venice

May 26th 2006
I'm writing at an Internet cafe in Venice. The city is actually pretty small. I heard everyone gets lost here, but Phuong and I have been navigating it quite well and haven't gotten too disoriented. I don't think this city is as pretty as any of the others we have been to, and there's not much to do besides shopping, but the people here are incredibly nice and helpful. I got a haircut (I'll ... 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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