Posts in Tag: churches
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Salisbury Cathedral – A Most Beautiful Church
While I am not a religious person, I do greatly appreciate the beautiful art and architecture that religion can inspire, none more so than the awesome Gothic cathedrals of western Europe. These wonders in stone often took hundreds of years to complete; Cologne took 600 years. As architectural tastes changed over the centuries, the results […]
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Zipaquira – Catedral de Sal and a Game of Tejo
This is the third post on my ongoing trip to Colombia with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. The last post was an introduction to Colombia and featured a visit to the amazing Paloquemao Market. That visit occupied the first morning of the trip after which we reboarded our bus and headed for the small city […]
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Ventura California – A Downtown Walking Tour
Gertrude Stein famously quipped about her home town of Oakland, California that “There is no there, there”. Without naming names I’ve been to a few other places in California that would fit that description, but today I’m about to walk the historic centre of Ventura California and I can assure you that it’s definitely there […]
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Granada – Explore It on Foot Part II
In the previous post I told readers why renting an audio tour of Granada Spain was, in my opinion, probably the best way to explore the city on foot over a two day period. In that post we got as far as the Capilla Real and the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella. In this post we’ll […]
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Granada Spain – Why It’s Best to Explore It on Foot
We’ve been in Granada Spain for just over twenty-four hours, all of which we’ve spent residing in or exploring the ancient Moorish district known as the Albaicin. It’s been a very pleasant eye opener, but now it’s time to literally come down from the mountain (well hill) and visit the centre of this wonderful city. I’m one of those […]
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Captiva Island, Florida – Learn History at the Cemetery
I’ve been coming to Sanibel-Captiva for almost forty years and am not conceited enough to think that I know it like the proverbial ‘back of my hand’. Actually if someone showed me a picture of the back of my hand along with say ten others from men my size and age, I doubt very much […]
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Amiens Cathedral – Visiting This Great Gothic Masterpiece
It’s been an emotional last few days on Liberation Tour 2015 with the visits to the various Dieppe sites where Canadians died in such great numbers and that was preceded by the very disturbing visit to Abbeye d’Ardenne where Canadian POWs, especially Nova Scotians were murdered. While we were all very upbeat coming from the D-Day sites, […]
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Saint Denis Basilica – The Best Way to Visit in the Other Paris
Prior to its terrible fire in 2019 everyone who went to Paris wanted to visit Notre Dame Cathedral, arguably the most famous church in the world, which also made it the most visited. While it was unquestionably beautiful to look at, there were simply too many people inside the church to really appreciate the interior. […]
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Montmartre – A Great Place to Chill Out in Paris. Here’s Why.
Our trip to Paris via the overnight Air Canada flight could not have gone smoother. Clearing customs was a breeze – France does not require entrants to fill out any advance documentation and apparently relies on the information encoded on your passport. I wish other countries would follow suit – who the hell knows the […]