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Venice day 3: Island hopping in the rain with fairweather tourists, a crap museum and divine hot chocolate

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November 26th 2017
Before I came back to Venice I had no idea it is made up of 124 islands. Today we started on 1 and visited another 4. And it all began at 6am.... We'd both had a better night's sleep so when the alarm went off at 6am we only swore at it twice. Each of course. Out of the door we went before 7...to find it pouring down. Typical holiday weather for us then. We hadn't checked the weather, hadn't pu ... 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