Learning the word “Pignolo”
We spent this summer holiday in Lecce, an old city in the Puglia region of Italy. We chose this location because an intensive Tai Chi workshop—a passion of my husband’s—was being held there….
Lecce
Vigoleno, a tiny, charming village
Vigoleno, located in Italy‘s Emilia-Romagna region, is a truly tiny and charming village. We visited there for a day trip one Sunday in June. When we arrived at the car park, I could…
Art Museum and Wine Bar
Next in Edinburgh, Scotland, we visited the National Gallery. Looking back, I realised it had been a full eleven years since our last visit—not five, as I had thought. It is a museum…
Ride on a Gondola
We had a ride on a gondola again in Venice. There was four of us this time and the gondolier told the heavier men to sit on one side, so the boat…
The beauty of la Pelosa beach exceeded our expectation
During our stay in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, we wanted to go to the beach called La Perosa in Stintino. Not only did I see the pictures many times, but last year my friend…
Revisiting the cake shop in Sintra
We came down into the town from the Pena Palace on the outskirts of Sintra, Portugal. After all, we were hungry, so we didn’t look for anything and went straight to a bakery…
Moscow-USSR-4
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. There were some small things that impressed me in Moscow, because things were different from the west: One of these was that the newspapers were basically free and a...
Gorgeous pendant
On the day we walked along the walking course in Toledo in my guide book, we went to Taller del Moro, but found that it was closed. So instead, we went into...
Viaggiare in aereo: Connettere mondi
Amiamo esplorare nuove destinazioni e il viaggio è spesso emozionante quanto l’arrivo. Mentre stiamo aggiornando i nostri archivi sulle compagnie aeree e sulle esperienze di volo, non vediamo l’ora di condividere nuovi spunti su come...
Tartina
We tried Tartina in Milan, in Italy, this time. This is a small dish with a small amount of food on the bread, as you can see in the photo. It...
Hotel and the shuttle bus
We stayed at a hotel called Edelweiss in the village of Pre Saint Didier in Valle d’Aosta, the north western tip of Italy. If you come by bus from Aosta and get off...
Ice Wine and Quebecoise cuisine
The next place we went during our food tour on Ile d’Orlean, the island in the suburbs of Quebec City in Canada was a winery. We had leaned that Canada produces...
Madrilenian Cocido
On the last day of our stay in Madrid in Spain, we had to meet a person and went to the arranged place. The area was lovely with stylish small retailers and...
Rickshaw
The highlight of our stay in Delhi was the rickshaw ride.This was real transport system for people living there, not like in Japan where rickshaws are for tourists.They pulled it by bicycle.We...
