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Exploring Burano & Venice!

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July 9th 2012
We awoke after a squeaky night on the world's noisiest sofa bed. We strolled downstairs for our breakfast at the Aqua Palace, which consisted of ham and cheese croissants to which Rach exclaimed "mine tastes like jam" (it wasn't until the next morning we realised the little ones were filled with apricot jam). We also discovered ordering a latte in Italy involves getting a long black and a ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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