Giudecca Bridge

Day 12 - Genoa to Venice, via Verona

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June 20th 2011
Sorry about the delay again, but last night just as I was going to post this, the wifi stopped working. After 30 minutes of trying, at 12:30am, I gave up. Another travel day for the three of us. We checked out of the hostel around 7:30am to take the bus down to the train station for our 3-stage trip to Venice. The trian from Genoa to Milano Centrale was on one of the better trains, the EuroS ... 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