Tag: old town

• Saya’s Firsts in San Sebastian, Spain

  

  The most anticipated part of our three day weekend was Saya taking her first flight.  I tried to quiet my anxious feelings by pinpointing exactly what I was nervous about.  I recognized that we wouldn’t be able to get off a flight the way you can do with a bus or the tube, but that…

  tkforrest

  July 19, 2019

  San Sebastian, Spain

  Beach, cheesecake, food, old town, pintxos, San Sebastian, Saya, Sidre, spain, Txakoli, wine

• Dubai & Dublin Double Layover

  

  If it wasn’t obvious, we didn’t want to leave Khoka Moya. At all. But we knew that our two day layover back to London meant we’d need to stick to our original travel plans.

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  February 19, 2018

  Dubai, UAE, Dublin, Ireland

  aquariam, Arabian Tea House, boat, Burj Khalifa, Dubai, dublin, Emirates, friends, gold, layover, mall, old town, ride, souk, spice market, UAE

• 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