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Life in Venice (or, Are you getting a sinking feeling?)

February 24th 2006
Sorry for the corny play on Thomas Mann- I didn't find any golden haired Polish boys. *Sigh* We arrived in Venice at night at the Mestra station. Mollie called our hotel and we waited across the street at the Plaza Hotel for the van to come and pick us up. We kept joking that any of the crappy vans driving by could be for us. But the van that did pull up wasn’t so bad after all. We drove qu ... 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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Sarah Howe

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Spending a month on sabbatical from work in Washington DC to take a Korean language course at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Previous entries from January to May 2006, when I studied abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France. I have loved traveling ever since I was a kid and my family took road trips all over the US. In the summer of '05 I spent a month in China on a research trip with my advisor. Now I've returned to Asia to have another go at hot humid weather and tasty exotic foods in a vibrant city. I've been on three continents so far- only four to go! Hope you enjoy the journals... full info

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