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The Floating City

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November 2nd 2013
A 2.30am wakeup all is never fun, but I have managed to find a way of contorting by body with the help of the tray table to sleep somewhat peacefully on planes....wake me up when we get there....or if Pringles are on offer mid flight. With RyanAir's apparent 98% punctuality rate I knew that we would land in Treviso, Italy about 11am right on time for the coach into Venezia and for a lovely ... 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