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Florence Museums
The Galleria dell'Accademia displays Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture. The Uffizi Gallery exhibits Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and Caravaggio's Medusa, amongst other masterpieces.
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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.
Tales of a Mother-Daughter Gap Year
