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Venice

July 10th 2008
Louise and I arrived in Venice by train at 6:30pm. We spent some time trying to figure out how to get a ticket for the bus (it requires either a phD in transport or some basic Italian), and took the bus to our hotel. Our bus driver was the most stereotypical Italian I can imagine and was therefore a very bad driver with aviators (yes at night) (note: that might be a reconstructed memory). We wande ... 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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My name is Renan, and I'm a 20yo student from Perth in Western Australia. I'm studying a combined degree in civil engineering and psychology at the University of Western Australia, and will spend the next year on two consecutive study abroad programs. I'll be studying at Penn State University in the USA for the Fall 2007 semester, and will then head to Uppsala University in Sweden for the Spring 2008 semester. In between I'll do some travelling in the USA and Europe, and after Sweden, I have about seven weeks to get a teaser of Europe. Feel free to subscribe to my blog, I hope you enjoy ... full info

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