Lake Lucerne

The Swiss Cities

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March 1st 2007
Over the past 6 days, we have travelled through 4 Swiss cities, through 3 language zones and have encountered some of the more memorable charcters of our journey so far. On our first leg of our travel from Verona to Lausanne, this 20-something, very 'hip/chic/wankerish' chap sat for the entire train journey sharing his very bad taste in music with us both (ipod turned up to maximum capacity and hi ... read more

Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich

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The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland... ... read more