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Stuff I write when I’m travelling
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Category: Switzerland and Italy
2018 – 3
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My last few hours in Milan before heading to the airport, and home. Mid-afternoon, thirty degrees, hot, sticky, big city, crowds. Shattered. Time to sign off. Yesterday I did manage to fit in a couple of extra sights before the heat became unbearable. First it was onto the metro and out to the west. The…
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Milan. High-class fashion, yes, top football, yes, but otherwise on first sight it’s just another big city, with lots of busy people, loads of tourists, rush rush rush. With only a couple of nights here I’ve zoomed in on a couple of sights and I’ll use the rest of the time to see if anything…
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I’m writing this post as I sit on a grey platform at Lugano station. I normally love travelling by train but today is a grey day, a drizzly day, and I’m waiting for the train that will take me away from warm, lovely Lugano to my final destination, and after that back home, and back…
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A curious place, Lugano. The canton of Ticino is a sliver of Italian in a predominantly German- and French-speaking nation-state, and it slivers right up against and into Italy itself. Across Lake Lugano you can see the Italian town of Campione d’Italia. Then you see the hills of Switzerland that completely surround it – Campione…
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It’s time to leave Lucerne, and what better way to do so than by boat. Lake Lucerne is about thirty kilometres long from its north-western point at Lucerne to its southern tip near Altdorf, which is where we’re heading. With the various jetty stops the ride will take over two and a half hours and…
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While the old town of Lucerne is worth seeing in itself, the real jewel here is natural – the glorious expanse of Lake Lucerne, gliding its way through magnificent mountain scenery. We’re now going out on the lake, and when we get off we’ll join a mountain railway and head to one of the local…
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A short train ride down from Zurich takes you to Lucerne, historic, stunningly-placed, beautifully well-preserved, Switzerland’s most touristed city. First off there was a medieval monastery somewhere around here, the point where Lake Lucerne drains into the River Reuss, and eventually a prosperous little trading town grew up. The Habsburgs acquired the locality, but the…
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