{"id":10990,"date":"2024-05-22T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:02:48","slug":"my-grand-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/my-grand-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"My grand tour, Venice &#038; back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To Venice and back by train, via Paris, Florence, Lecco &amp; Chur, my notes and links. It was a delightful surprise to find I was traveling over the Bernina Pass. &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palazzocendon.it\/en\/\">Palazzo Cendon<\/a> in Venice, <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hotelbernini.duetorrihotels.com\/en\">Hotel Bernini<\/a> in Florence, I have <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/florencefirenze\/\">been before<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.griso.info\/en\">Hotel Griso Collection, Lecco<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.co.uk\/Hotel_Review-g1079148-d1105400-Reviews-Hotel_Griso_Collection-Malgrate_Lake_Como_Lombardy.html\">trip advisor reviews<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freieck.ch\/en\/\">Hotel Ambiente Freieck in Chur, Schweiz<\/a> also, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chur\">Chur <\/a>&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grisons\">Grisons <\/a>at wikipedia; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather-atlas.com\/en\/switzerland\/chur-weather-november\">the Chur snow forecast<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotelparisbastille.com\/en\/\">Hotel Paris Bastille<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<a name=\"pix\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My pictures<\/h3>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width: 640px; height: 400px\" class=\"fshow-wrapper\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/fshow_orbit_5ff6ee733d967?photosetid=72177720322596370&user_id=38126735%40N00&username=photomatt&gallery_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fphotomatt%2Fsets%2F72177720322596370%2F\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 400px\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" border=\"0\">\n<\/iframe>\n<noscript>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHBqjBV9hs\" target=\"_blank\">Click to View<\/a><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davelevy\/albums\/72177720322596370\/\">at flickr<\/a>, annoyingly in the wrong order i.e. most recent first<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Organisers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.byway.travel\/\">Byway Travel<\/a>, experts in rail, they claim! I travelled by train and learned a number of things, often about local transport in the cities. These include Zurich, which I bought from a machine at the Zurich HB bus station. Venice, which I bought online ( they send you a code and the ticket needs to be picked up at the ticket office, so best bought on arrival at the ticket office opposite Venice SL and Paris where I have a navigo card and now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr\/en\/tickets-fares\/media\/smartphone\">IDF Mobilities<\/a> app which I need to work out how to use. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Map<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1BGOVGM1rjLpBX3HyBeRJNOwOPHkDH7o&#038;ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trip.byway.travel\/journey-template\/72e507bd-98d4-4f2d-8a76-3eedc0e9a2ab\">My itinerary<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=boat+trips+from+lecco\">Google query: boat trips from lecco<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/florencefirenze\/#comment-155989\">My comments and notes about Firenze<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/collections\/YfVIUGDf1i8\/venice\">16 images of Venice from Unsplash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecco<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved Lecco, although did not do so much there, but the Hotel has fab views from the dining room and the room&#8217;s balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco-1024x175.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco-1024x175.png 1024w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco-768x131.png 768w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco-1536x263.png 1536w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Panorama-Lake-Como-from-Lecco.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lake Como, from the Lecco esplanade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More pictures coming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Venice and back by train, via Paris, Florence, Lecco &amp; Chur, my notes and links. It was a delightful surprise to find I was traveling over the Bernina Pass. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[79],"tags":[2066,81,264,1834,263,1824,82,108,2064],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-chur","tag-europe","tag-florence","tag-interail","tag-italy","tag-paris","tag-switzerland","tag-travel-2","tag-venice"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/venice-massimoadami-unsplash-w1080.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11925,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions\/11925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}