View from the Campanile

Getting lost in Venice

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December 31st 2013
Geo: 45.4359, 12.3374The guidebook reassures us that Venice is an island, and therefore, you can't get too lost. It felt it at times yesterday!We got up, and Steven and I went to buy bread and coffees for breakfast whilst the kids read in bed. They are getting so grown up! Croissants taste different here - more like a panettone texture - but the coffee was the best since I left home. Wond ... 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