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My Dogs Are Barking

June 14th 2016
My Dogs Are Barking Maybe you have not heard this expression for a while. To say ‘My dogs are barking’ means ‘My feet hurt.’ It’s an old expression that gave rise to naming of a shoe brand ‘Hush Puppies’, meaning that if you wear Hush Puppy brand shoes, then your feet won’t hurt. That how I feel after marching around the Cinque Terra today. Yesterday we entered Italy and were hea ... read more
Europe » Italy » Liguria » Cinque Terre » Corniglia

Italian Flag 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
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