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Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona is a huge urban city. We were a lit­tle ner­vous after read­ing review after review that summed it up as basi­cally “a big dirty city”, but it turned out to be a very pleas­ant stay. Day one We arrived in Barcelona late and did our best to nav­i­gate its train sys­tem. We pretty much followed […]

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Venice, Italy

Venice turned out to be a fun detour. It was so spot-on to what we expected it to be that it almost felt like we were in some kind of theme park com­plete with gon­do­liers, crooked alley­ways, and an uncount­able num­ber of tourists. Day one We arrived in Venice in the early evening and made […]

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Genova, Italy

Gen­ova as a good change of pace from Belag­gio. We were in Gen­ova for two days and didn’t hear any Eng­lish at all in the city (except for the young woman who checked us into our hotel; I think she was a stu­dent and anx­ious try out her Eng­lish skills). Gen­ova is Also a VERY […]

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Bellagio, Italy

Belag­gio is a tiny resort vil­lage on the moun­tain­ous shores of Lake Como. There’s not a lot to do there other than explor­ing lit­tle shops, eat­ing, and enjoy­ing the view. This was a good thing. It forced us to relax a bit. Day one (Sep­tem­ber 23) This was a lazy day. We walked around the town and […]

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The Bernese Alps

The regional train from Lucerne brought us as far as Inter­laken, where we had to switch to the mountain-climbing vari­ety. From there, the train car­ried us up to Lauter­brun­nen, which if you’re dri­ving a car, is as far as you can go. All of the vil­lages at higher ele­va­tions are inac­ces­si­ble by auto­mo­bile. We changed […]

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