Venice

Venice by Night

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October 6th 2010
We were in the first group to depart the Nieuw Amsterdam for the nighttime shore excursion. What better way to start a Romantic Mediterranean cruise than with an evening gondola ride in the canals of Venice with your new wife. For those of you who have been paying attention, Sharon and I were married on Saturday. After leaving the ship we boarded a water taxi that took us to a landing near the 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