Venice

Heaven, I'm in heaven...or Venice!

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December 30th 2013
Geo: 45.4345, 12.3384As I write this, I look out the kitchen window to see the gondoliers cruising down the canals beneath our apartment, singing....the sun is setting on a day without a cloud in the sky, our 3 bedroom apartment, between the Rialto and St Marks, on a canal, is perfect....Steven keeps telling me that I really did win the lotto when I married him, and I believe it!But backtracki ... 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