Dan & Laura by the Duomo

Florence

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September 24th 2011
Hi everyone, sorry for the delay in the blog but we had some internet issues over the past 2 days. We flew out of Calgary on Wednesday, the 21st, and landed in Amsterdam early on Thursday morning. We only had a few hours layover, but to our surprise, Air Italia was overbooked and we were on standby. Obviously we weren't too happy about that after an 8.5 hour flight! Ron & Lissa our traveli ... 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