Can't see enough of this

Florence day 2

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June 21st 2015
Woke up....ohhh my goodness that is the best sleep EVER. I had a shower and then the hair dryer blew up in my hand. Oops. We walked the streets of Florence again looking for an old fashioned cobbler to see if he could make me a pair of shoes, after 20 mins we found him and he didn't speak a word of English, turns out he didn't make heels so it wasn't to be this time. We walked down the river to th ... 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