candles

walk, eat, siesta, walk some more, eat some more

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August 3rd 2006
so this has become our general plan for the day since we have been in Italy. Of course, some gelato and espresso breaks are thrown in there, and we usually end the day with some wine. We arrived in Florence on Tuesday evening, quickly found our hotel, and after haggling with the receptionist (for some reason she wanted to charge us more for air conditioning) we got checked in and headed out in s ... 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