Church and main square

Very small Venice

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September 30th 2006
The ferry for Corfu to Venice runs for 25hrs so I had some serious time to kill, most of this was spent chatting to Brazilian Matt and catching up on much needed sleep. I also had a surprisingly good meal on board too that didnt cost the earth and when we went to watch the evening movie met a pair of Canadian girls. The movie turned out to be some Italian-costumed-erotic-musical-dreamscape type de ... 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