First day in Venice

Voyage to Venice

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August 7th 2009
Our blog about Venice is a bit overdue, seeing as we were there almost two weeks ago. Anyways, we arrived in Venice exhausted after 24 hours of travel. Night train through Italy was not exactly comfortable. Our train smelled like a chicken coop and the people were loud and beligerent. We took shifts sleeping and had several sketchy looking men try to enter our cabin at odd hours of the night. But ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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