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homeward bound

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October 17th 2017
our last few hours in Italy and Venice started with a good breakfast in our room of toast and the last of our jar of apricot jam we bought in Sorrento and an instant coffee, packed our bags , showered and went for a walk around a rather foggy Venice for an hour and a bit had another coffee at a cafe with some pastries from a bakery for morning tea and then back to our room said good-buy to Venice ... 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