Having lunch

The trip through Venice and Codroipo and off to the relatives

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April 5th 2009
We were up early this morning to pack and tidy up the apartment. Though we were expecting to leave around 10, the woman who manages the apartment, Teresa, showed up about twenty after nine and so we sort of scrambled in the end (unknowingly leaving behind Joshua's red sketchbook of ideas). We wheeled our bags the short distance to the bus stop, only to find the first bus was packed. We managed 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