Tag: cathedral

• Cordoba’s Medieval Mosque

  

  25Feb2019:  The drive to Cordoba was dotted with vineyards and orchards.  Our day trip itinerary featured La Mesquita Catedral de Cordoba.  Its grandeur did not disappoint.  When the Christians conquered the Moorish regions they didn’t smash this religious space- rather they added onto the Mosque creating a church-mosque combination. We lost count of the arches…

  tkforrest

  February 25, 2019

  Cordoba, Spain

  Andalucia, cathedral, cordoba, mosque, road trip, spain

• Sweetzerland!

  

  I can’t claim credit for the title of this post. Sweetzerland is the name of a chocolate shop that you’ll want to visit when you arrive in Geneva.  The author of the NY Times article ’36 Hours in Geneva’ boasts that this is the shop ‘where Russian tourists come to buy chocolate by the kilo’ since…

  tkforrest

  January 13, 2018

  Geneva, Switzerland

  Baines de Paquis, cafe, Carouge, castle, cathedral, CERN, Chillion, chocolate, day trip, jet, lake, Lausanne, Montreux, old town, Ouchy, Parfums de Beyrouth, pastry, Sweetzerland, train, walking

• St. Albans: A Favorite Day Trip from London

  

  If you catch the Thameslink train from Kings Cross St Pancras, it takes a little less than an hour to be whisked away to St. Albans.  At this point, I feel confident that this is my top suggestion for a day trip from London!

  tkforrest

  November 26, 2017

  St Albans, England

  cathedral, day trip, London, lovely, market, Museum, neighborhood, park, pubs, ruins, St Albans, United Kingdom, walk