Tuesday 16th August – Never again will my favourite animal be a donkey!
August 16th 2011 Right so we thought brekkie was at 7.15am and we needed to be packed up prior to that so we were up at 6.40am... we were one of the only ones! Whoops!
Today we are heading off to Venice via a few places! First stop was at a perfumery... we saw how perfume is made and why it is so expensive. It takes 3000 kg of lavender to get one litre of lavender oil. At the end our tour guide told us the prices
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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 
