Month: November 2024
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Monteriggioni, a defensive outpost of medieval Sienna
This is the second of a series of three posts on the small villages we visited in Tuscany, Italy. The first post about Castellina in Chianti is here. We took a 2-week long driving tour from Lausanne, Switzerland to Tuscany by way of Turin (Torino), the Italian Riviera (Genoa, Cinque Terre), and Florence. Before we…
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Roaming around Tuscany – Castellina In Chianti
This is the first of a new series of three posts on the small villages we visited in Tuscany, Italy. We took a 2-week long driving tour from Lausanne, Switzerland to Tuscany by way of Turin (Torino), the Italian Riviera (Genoa, Cinque Terre), and Florence. Before we turned around, we explored several Tuscan villages. If…
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Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville, Crissier
After over a decade of living in Lausanne, Switzerland, we’d often heard about the famous Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, a charming “villagesque” suburb nearby. Finally, before moving back to the US, we couldn’t resist and booked a lunch there. Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville achieved its three Michelin star status in 1989…