"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go." --Truman Capote
October 12th 2010 I couldn't have said it better...
Buon Giorno!!!!! would somebody please pinch me? Perhaps a hot Italian in a gondola get up? (just kidding) It's been two full beautiful days in Venice and I still can't believe I'm really here soaking it all in. We arrived late Sunday evening just before midnight by water taxi. It was quiet, the stars were out, and it was the perfect arrival. We tip toed into o
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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 
