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We just arrived from a city break in Copenhagen. It was a really nice city and one of the highlights was definitively the amusement park of Tivoli Gardens. This is one of the oldest park of its kind in the world, since it opened on August 15, 1843. We were reading that once Walt Disney visited this park and got so impressed that he decided he was going to build something similar. The park is very interesting because it feels old but really well kept. I definitively would recommend it if you get the chance to visit this scandinavian city.

Today it was a sunny day in Switzerland so we used our brand new mobility card to get a Smart and we headed to Neuchatel to visit a friend of K. When we arrived there he proposed us to visit a really cool place on the top of the mountain, so we went there. I had no idea what was exactly about so when we finally arrived after circling a lot of small roads we got to a place that at first sight doesn't look too impressive: You just see some cows with their bells ringing, surrounded by some rocky fence, but once you cross the field and pass the rocks you get welcomed by a breath taking view: The Creux du Van, a natural rocky cirque that looks like a cliff in the sea. You can walk in the edge of the cliff and in some parts is scary: the abyss is just 2 steps from the road, but anyway totally recommended! Very interesting place.

During this long weekend we visited Hamburg for the first time and we got a very good impression about this German maritime city that once was member of the medieval Hanseatic League. We didn't know but during those days the city was celebrating the "Port Birthday" and there a lot food stalls, bands playing and nice ships visiting the port. Berlin is still my favorite German city but this comes second very close.

A friend was visiting us this weekend and she wanted to visit Strasbourg so we decided today to hop on the TER train and go to this beautiful Alsatian city. When we got there we were welcomed by a very nice sunny day and while we were walking in the old city center I took this picture of the Place Kléber. This is the largest square at the center of the city and there is an interesting historic fact: Even if the place is currently named after the french general Jean-Baptiste Kléber, the first name it had was Barfüsserplatz (square of the bare-feet-goers), because once there was a monastery along the square.

The distribution of the holidays in Switzerland is particular, since most of them are clustered in May and there are not so many in the remaining months of the year. Anyway, last Monday I wanted to enjoy the last holiday this month so I head south to Zurich to meet a German friend. She proposed to go up to Uetliberg by train and it was a very good idea. This mountain offers an impressive panoramic view of Zurich and its lake as you can observe in this picture. It takes around 20 minutes to go there and the trip is totally worth it. Highly recommended if you pass by Zurich.

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