Mary and Deb

Day 34 - Venice and Tuscany Day Tour

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September 21st 2018
Breakfast at the Atlantic Palace was ok but nothing to write a long blog post about. For today's adventure we'd decided to book a Best of Tuscany day tour with Walkabout Tours. Our guide Stefano, a very knowledgeable and charismatic man, and our driver was Antonio, a very professional driver and quite a nice guy too. Our first impressions of Stefano were he was the Italian drill sergeant but once ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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