Doug with the panne montata

Cinque Terre and the final weekend

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July 21st 2005
It's sort of late to be updating this, but it must be done. The weekend started with a trip to Florence. Part of the group did the obligatory David thing, and Melis and I did the leather market thing, having already seen the David. Then there was some Duomo action and some restaurant action (everyone else seemed to really like our restaurant but i ordered the bad dish). The next day we hit up th ... 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