SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE

Seen across the Lagoon from our hotel window

June 29th 2010
Excerpted from my book, OUR SUMMER IN SLOVENIA, available at Amazon.com Our friends, Char and Al Love, who we linked up with in Budapest, stayed a few days at our apartment in Bled, and we promised to take them to Venice, Italy where they were to board a train. Sounds complicated? Not really, and that is one of the surprises about Slovenia. How well Slovenia is situated for side trips to some o ... 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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Tom Marshall

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My wife and I retired to Naples Florida knowing that we would not stay there during the summer. Our plan is to go to different place each year, one that suits our criteria. We have rented for at least three months in: IRELAND, AUATRALIA/NEW ZEALAND,SLOVENIA, ESTONIA, MEXICO, CARMEL, Ca. (3 times) and presently ANNAPOLIS, Md. I have published four books about this lifestyle: (They are the basis for my blogs, and are at Amazon.com) OUR SUMMER IN SLOVENIA OUR SUMMER IN AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND OUR SUMMER IN ESTONIA OUR SUMMER IN CARMEL(due Sept. 08) I am woking on a book to explai... full info

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