Category: Interballin’
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Coming Full Circle
Les Houches to Paris was a fairy long journey. Not least due to a 5 hour stop over in Bellegarde. French high speed trains have a way of getting very booked up, very quickly, so this length of stop was unavoidable. Bellegarde is a pretty city but there’s not a great deal for a tourist…
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The Great Outdoors
The trip into Les Houches is an amazing ride. The train travels along the sides of the mountains and has windows slanted on the roof as well. The views are really amazing. It was a great way to get ourselves into the area. Once we arrived Andy kindly picked us up at the station. We…
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Travel, Wine, Food
Verona to Sierre Switzerland is not a quick or direct route. Five different trains over about eight hours was not an amazing way to spend a day but we made do. Frequent stops in the odd spot meant that we could do things in the day as well. Our first longer stop was Novara. A…
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Verona
Still tired from the night before we dragged ourselves to the Airbnb. We had a nice lye down and then wondered into the city. We saw the accident arena where we could hear Earth, Wind and Fire playing. Then we wondered to the cathedral. After this we went to Juliet’s balcony and then grabbed some…
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Old Faces in Venice
Our train to Venice was delayed which fortunately timed our arrival very well for meeting with Tom and James. We only waited about 10 minutes for them to arrive from Rome. It was very nice to have gotten my Linton friends to come and visit me in Europe. They also seemed to have had a…
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Tuscany
Our trip to Tuscany started in Florence. Yet another city we’d planned to stay in but had been turned away by the cost. Ultimately I was glad not to stay there long. It’s a nice city to see for it’s beautiful old buildings and amazing physics defying dome. But it’s full of tourists for miles.…
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Emilia-Romagna
We stayed in a city called Parma. We arrived late and headed to the supermarket. We then met our Airbnb host who showed us to his spare room before heading to dinner. We chatted with his house mate for a bit. The classic ‘sorry I don’t speak much English’ but yet he still speaks significantly…
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My house mate is a city in Italy
Originally we planned a couple nights in Milan. Problematically, Milan is the most expensive city I’ve found that I wanted to stay in so far. Ultimately the cost/reward ratio didn’t seem worth it. We thought we would probably enjoy an extra day in Tuscany instead. Not able to to find any accommodation at all at…
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No Mo in Como
After our long journey across Switzerland we had to have another long bus journey. It was fairly uneventful as it was late in the evening although Lawrence did fall over when he picked up my bag as he expected it to be heavier than it was and braced himself wrong. It was a good chuckle…
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A journey across Switzerland
On our way to Lake Como we decided to stop in Geneva for a couple hours. Both Lawrence and I have been there before but it’s always nice to revisit a place you know. We were only there for an hour and a half but we had enough time to walk to lake, see the…
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