The Brook between Orchards

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March 2nd 2009
We took the early Eurostar out of Venice on the first cloudy day since we arrived. Dozens of heavily laden, barge-like canal boats were steaming across the ten kilometres of open lagoon between the mainland and Venice. Back on the mainland we saw cars and traffic for the first time in a week. We saw black earth, farmers ploughing fields, grain sprouting. Venice was as far north as we had planned t ... 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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