Serious Hassan
Our second day in Fez, Morocco, was packed with sightseeing. At 10:00 AM, our local guide, Hassan, picked us up at our riad. Unlike our guide in Tangier, he was a humble, serious,…
Fez
It was supposed to be a chaotic town, but…
We arrived in Fez, one of Morocco‘s major cities. First, we drove through the new city, which seemed like a very orderly metropolis. Here too, we stayed in a riad located in the…
My husband’s illness and repair work
Leaving the blue city of Chefchaouen in Morocco, we headed to the ancient city of Meknes. I had also visited here 30 years ago. I had such a good impression of it then…
Restaurant with music
On the first day of my stay in Cesme, Turkey, we went to the restaurant listed in my guidebook. The name is Rihtim Restaurant. It is one of the many restaurants along the…
Also in Dunfermline there are Ruins of a palace and an abbey
After spending a lovely morning in Culross, a small town in the Scottish region of Fife, we took the bus to Dunfermline, where the train station is located. We decided to take a…
The Bigger the Better?
I had seen the statue of Buddha in Ushiku in Ibaraki, Japan, many times from afar, but this time we went to visit there. It was just about closing, so we…
‘Read’ a pasta dish
Talking with a Japanese friend of mine, Koji, who is a wine and food expert, I learned that there is an Italian dish called Napolitan in Japan, which I did not know that existed.
Handicrafts in Scanno
Scanno, the town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, is small but they have high quality handicrafts. It is especially famous for the pendant called Presentosa. We also saw some of them...
Thai Airways International
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited is the national carrier of the Kingdom of Thailand. It operates domestic, regional and intercontinental flights radiating from its home base in Bangkok to key destinations around the world...
visiting a winery
We saw and tasted a lot of things in our short holiday in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, but now it was coming to the end. On this day, we went...
The only shopping we did in this holiday
In Gjirokaster, an old town in Albania, we stayed at a hotel near the bustling city centre, where shops were lined up like a bazaar. The hotel was called Hotel Argjiro. It seems...
Paraty at night
The first thing I noticed in Paraty, Brazil at night was the vendors selling sweets such as egg tart pastries and creme caramels. The ground was paved very roughly and very difficult...
Strong garlic
We had a dinner in a restaurant called Crama Sibiu Vechi in Sibiu in Romania.According to our friends, this place is specialised in Saxon dishes.It used to be a wine celler, so...
To Mt. Nokogiri
In the middle of Golden Week (about a week from the end of April to early May, with many national holidays in Japan), we went to Mt. Nokogiri, in Chiba prefecture....
