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Limelight on Lugano
Read more: Limelight on LuganoI spent just two full days in Lugano, a city in southern Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region. Though Swiss, Lugano seems as Italian as it is Swiss, and maybe more. Lugano rests on the northern most shore of Lake Lugano. A glacial lake, Lugano has green and olive hues, that sparkle like Venetian glass, as dark…
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Exploring Lago di Carezza and the Dolomites: A Hiker’s Paradise
Read more: Exploring Lago di Carezza and the Dolomites: A Hiker’s ParadiseToday I was fortunate enough to be able to hike part of the Dolomites. On the way to the trailhead, I made a quick stop at Lago di Carezza, a small alpine lake in the South Tyrol region. The emerald water of Carezza, a spring fed lake, sparkles with flecks of rainbow and is framed…
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Wine and Rice
Read more: Wine and RiceArrived in Lugano, Switzerland, Wednesday. On the way, stopped in Gattinara, home to Travaglini, an award winning wine-maker, in Italy’s Piedmont region. Travaglini is famous for its Gattinara wines (made from hand-picked Nebbiolo grapes) and also for the atypical shape of its sediment trapping bottles. Some of its wines are designated DOCG, requiring at least…
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Biella/Italian Alps and a G.O.A.T Cheesy Experience
Read more: Biella/Italian Alps and a G.O.A.T Cheesy ExperienceI left Chamonix via Switzerland and cruised the Great St. Bernard Pass into Northern Italy. As a side, Napoleon and his army followed the pass into Italy, of course, without the benefit of the modern highway. Things went better for me. A stop in Aosta, a city founded by the Romans in 25 BC, which…
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Climbing Mont Blanc to 12,000 ft (but via cable cars, an elevator, and stairs) Hypoxia?
Read more: Climbing Mont Blanc to 12,000 ft (but via cable cars, an elevator, and stairs) Hypoxia?A journey requiring not a spec of physical exertion, today you climbed Mont Blanc, to the tippy top, via cable cars, an elevator and stairs. Just before descend, you may have had a brief bout of hypoxia. Let us further review your day. Your first cable car left from the Chamonix station, at the foot…
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