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venice

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October 16th 2017
up this morning at 630 and made Esther a coffee in bed must be the romantic air of venice however it was only an instant coffee but it was in bed, anyway enoubh of the romance we had breakfast of toast and jam and another instant coffee Nescafe by the way, and headed off for the train station to retrieve our painting when we arrived we found they were already open and in the process of cleaning 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