Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice

Venice to Positano

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November 3rd 2011
Well, due to the difficulties of finding internet access in Venice we haven’t loaded a blog since the one a couple of days ago and that was a mission in itself. I wrote it up and saved it onto a USB stick and tried to use the laptop in San Marco but as we had used the connection we had paid for on Joy’s iPad it wouldn’t allow me to access it on the laptop. So had to find an internet café ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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