Horse’s Breakfast – Cordoba, Spain

…When I was a kid, my mother gave us ‘horse’s breakfast’ before school. Horse’s breakfast? I ask, perplexed. It is fresh bread soaked in red wine. So you had bread soaked in wine, and then went to school?   How old were you..? Alvaro, a Portuguese gent whose acquaintance was made in Chefchaouen, offers a…

Art of Awe – Caen, France (#2)

  Across the square from Chateaux Ducal in Caen, is the city’s equally venerable 13th century cathedral.   It has been painstakingly restored over the past 6 years, and was also substantially reconstructed in the 1940s after Caen was reduced to rubble in WW2. The complexity and artistry of the masonry is awe inspiring.   Hundreds of…