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<\/a><\/p>\nWe arrived by bus with a number of fellow reunion attendees from Milan. As Mt. San Salvatore and Lake Lugano come into view, the reality of actually returning after 38 years began to sink in.<\/p>\n
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VIEW FROM THE TOP<\/h3>\n
Although it looks like we’re standing in front of a fake background, we’re not. We climbed up the tower at Casa Fleming after the dinner held there for some fresh air and The View.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lugano, like the rest of Switzerland is virtually trash free. Even the graffiti in the underground walkway to the train station is well dressed!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Certenago is the small village that TASIS is a part of. Cobblestones and murals are a big part of the ambiance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 Angelo’s store was in the village, just meters from the school’s property. He and “mama” made the best sandwiches, and had in stock all the sundries a student teen might need – cigarettes, beer and cookies. On the left, Angelo’s store is now his son’s architecture business studio, on the right, Angelo’s store as it stood in November 1973.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mediterranean Cyprus<\/a>\u00a0line the entrance to the\u00a0church in Gentilino, just down hill from the TASIS campus. The associated graveyard was a natural draw for students at night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 Bob remembers spending a few wayward nights around the mausoleum, in the dark with friends. This church is a couple of minute walk from campus. Mrs. Fleming is buried here, in a very tasteful grave – naturally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Hesse spent the last 40 years of his life just up the hill in Montagnola. It was here where\u00a0Siddhartha and Steppenwolf were written. His house and grounds is now a museum, back in the day it was a place that TASIS students used to hang out off campus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Developed and marked walking trails, what a concept! On the right is the Swiss version of the ubiquitous dumpster. Opened via a foot pedal, separated by waste type, and emptied by a truck lifting the container via the metal fitting on top<\/a>. Clean and ergonomically correct.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 All good things must end, and on our fifth day in Lugano we headed to the train station to catch a fast train to Florence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A very special place, the Italian part of Switzerland – June 11 through 16, 2014 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ARRIVING IN LUGANO <\/p>\n \n We arrived by bus with a number of fellow reunion attendees from Milan. As Mt. San Salvatore and Lake Lugano come into view, the reality of actually returning after 38 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sub-story","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nIN TOWN<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nCERTENAGO<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\nANGELO’S STORE – NOW & THEN<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSANT’ ABBONDIO CHURCH<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nTINY LITTLE CUBICLES WAITING TO BE FILLED AND MRS. FLEMING’S GRAVE<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nHERMAN HESSE’S GRAVE<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nTHE SWISS GET A LOT OF THINGS RIGHT<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nARRIVEDERCI LUGANO!<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a>\u00a0* [June, 2014]<\/a>\u00a0* [Camille’s Birthday Party]<\/a>\u00a0* [TASIS Reunion]<\/a> * [Lugano]<\/a> * [Gastronomy]<\/a>\u00a0* [Hike Up to the Collina d’Oro]<\/a> * [Valle Verzasca]<\/a> * [Monte Bre and Morcote]<\/a> * [Florence]<\/a> * [Art Museums in Florence]<\/a> * [Rome]<\/a> * [The Vatican]<\/a> * [Sicily]<\/a> * [Touring Taormina<\/a>] * [A Drive to Mt. Etna]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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