P7080077

Venice

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July 8th 2008
Continuing our journey forward, traffic settled into a fast paced clip - somewhere between 95-110 mph, and I went along with the best of them. This morning, I wasted almost an hour attempting to find our hotel in the Nav system, and searched every which way I could think of. Nothing worked. It simply would not find the destination, nor even, the exact street the hotel is located on. Giving up ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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