Lucca

Liking Luca

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October 23rd 2015
It is like being back home again, waking up on a DAM ship; only, on this DAM ship there are a few things that didn’t give me that “like home” feeling that I did have on the Nieuw Amsterdam. It’s funny how not having the day of the week greet us in the elevators really shouldn’t be such a “big thing”; but, it’s just funny how it is. And taking my shower this morning reminded me of a ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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