Tag: walking

• 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

• A Cold Day Trip to Colchester

  

    Elephants have been my favourite animal since I was about eight years old so I was taken with Colchester’s love for the keystone species as well!  We arrived knowing that Colchester is Britain’s oldest recorded town, but didn’t know that when the Roman Emperor Claudius invaded the settlement in 43AD that he brought elephants…

  tkforrest

  December 16, 2017

  Colchester, England, United Kingdom

  castle, Colchester, day trip, park, shopping, tea, train, Trinity Street, tudor, United Kingdom, walking