The district of Bercy
We easily arrived at Cour St-Emilion station, the nearest metro station to our reserved hotel, via Metro Line 14 from Orly Airport in Paris, France. It was smoother than we expected; we arrived…
Paris
The problem in Paris this time
Almost every trip to Paris, France, presents some kind of problem. Trains are convenient for travelling from Milan to Paris. However, in early May, the Gare de Lyon, the Paris train station, was…
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant
For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my…
The famous Montreal Jazz Festival
On the day we arrived in Montreal in Canada was the last day of the famous Montreal Jazz Festival. We had not done any homework, so when the person at the…
De Chirico Exhibition
When I visited Castel del Monte in Puglia in south Italy, they were holding an exhibition of Giorgio de Chirico.I always love his paintings, especially the one with a young girl running in…
An amazing building in Tokyo
In Tokyo there are some amazing buildings like this one. This is real, not a trick of the photo.
People in Osaka
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting I don’t have enough experience to evaluate the different characters of Japanese people depending on where they are from, but soon after I went out of the...
Enjoyed shopping in Melrose
The other reason why we went to Melrose, southern Scotland was to visit a knitwear shop called Eribé. I came across this brand in a shop in Whitstable last year. They make colourful...
Squid eggs, octopus innards, etc.
On Pellestrina, an island in the Veneto region of Italy, we walked around looking for a restaurant that we had been told was supposed to be open. This time, instead of going along the...
Austrian Room
The starting point of this trip, whose main purpose was to take trains, was Tirano , a border town between Italy and Switzerland.I booked a room in a hotel in front of the...
Flooding sake
A glass was in a square wooden measuring cup which was on a small plate. She poured the local sake generously. The sake flooded out of the glass to the cooden cup...
Bliss
Eating wonderful foods at a beautiful place is bliss. Here in Langhe in Piedmont, Italy we experienced again. It was at a small restaurant in Castello di Grinzane. 5 starters, 2 mains and...
enjoy swimming at Blue Caves
I continue talking about the tour in Zakynthos Island in Greece. Because the water at the Xygia beach was too cold to swim, we went on driving and stopped at Skinari where there was a...
