Nice - post dinner walk

Nice & Florence

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September 26th 2014
Short flight from Barcelona to Nice - got a taxi with a driver who spoke very little English. He was trying to tell us something in French about the place we needed to go - clever Georgia worked out that he was saying cars could not enter the street and we would have to walk a little bit. Our hostel was rather dodgy...for starters, it was in a completely separate building (a good 500 metres from t ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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