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Lucca
Lucca is a city on the Serchio river in Italy’s Tuscany region. It’s known for the well-preserved Renaissance walls encircling its historic city center and its cobblestone streets.
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Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre is a string of centuries-old seaside villages on the rugged Italian Riviera coastline. In each of the 5 towns, colorful houses and vineyards cling to steep terraces, harbours are filled with fishing boats and trattorias turn out seafood specialties along with the Liguria region’s famous sauce, pesto.
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Switzerland Unfiltered
Our summary of what we loved and "not so much" of our brief but expensive stint in Switzerland.
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Glacier 3000 & Vevey
The Swiss Riviera stretches from Lausanne to Montreux and encompasses the beautiful Lavaux vineyards perched on steep hills with a dramatic view of the lake and the Alps on the other side. Then you reach Vevey and its old town, passing La-Tour-de-Peilz before ending in Montreux.
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Montreux
Next stop in the land of stunning scenery is Montreux (without an "a") on Lake Geneva.
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Trümmelbach Falls
Loud thundering and roaring in the interior of the mountain, gurgling, foaming and churning water: these are the Trümmelbach Falls.
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Brienz & Lauterbrunnen
Lake Brienz is just north of the Alps. It has a length of ~14 kilometres, a width of 2.8 kilometres and a maximum depth of 260 metres. Its area is 29.8 square kilometres, and the surface is 564 metres above sea-level.
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Jungfraujoch
Jungfraujoch is a saddle in the Bernese Alps, connecting the two four-thousander peaks Jungfrau and Mönch, at an elevation of 3,466 metres above sea level.
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Rhône Glacier
Since the opening of the modern-day Furka pass road 150 years ago, thousands of tourists have come to see the unique mountain panorama around the Rhône Glacier. The ice grotto, which is re-drilled each year, looks whitish-grey, but inside the 100m long tunnel, the ice chamber glows in magically fine shades of blue.
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Lucerne
We've arrived in the land of Toblerone only to find to my horror that it is more expensive than it is back in Oz!! But then EVERYTHING is grossly expensive in Switzerland, hence why we're only spending 10 days here.
Tales of a Mother-Daughter Gap Year
