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Foodies in Florence

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August 11th 2013
I'm back on the 'road'. The infrequency of my travel posts will reveal just how little I have travelled in recent weeks, months, years. So little in fact that when I sought to book a date off work in order to spend an indulgent weekend in Italy I realised that it had been over a year since my last vacation. Oh dear. A weekend in the beautiful Tuscan city of Florence was a 'gi ... 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