Barb at Dinner

Stu and Barb go to Italy

---

March 2nd 2002
We arrive in Venice and it was gorgeous! The canals, the slightly crooked buildings - all of it wonderful! We took a vaparetto from the airport to Palazzo Bembo where we had to hunt to find out room. It was a darling place. We walked up the crooked stairs in the dark and felt our way around until we got our key (which had a large beautiful silk tassle attached to it) and found our roo ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

---

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