Romeo and Juliet at the Bastille
After spending a night at a friends’ house in Fontainebleau, France, our friend and her husband joined us in Paris. After meeting up with mutual friends—a couple living in Paris and another in…
Edinburgh
After eating galettes, we went to the palace
In Moret-sur-Loing, France, we had lunch at a crepe shop by the river. The restaurant was called La Poterne. Apparently, there are roughly two types of crepes: sweet ones are called crepes, and…
A beautiful town of history and art
On the second day of our short trip to France, we went to Fontainebleau, where our friends live. Normally, you can go directly from Lyon station in Paris, but due to station construction,…
Colourful stilt houses
In Chiloe Island in Chile, there are not only World Heritage wooden churches to see, but also stilt houses on the sea. They are called Palafito. Very colourful and picturesque. Originally they were built in…
Arrived in Alghero
The flight from Rome to Alghero in Sardinia was quite packed, but Alitalia had a rule to make the middle seats free, so we did not have to be too close to…
A temple of commerce
Near the Central Market in Valencia, Spain, there is a building called La Lonja de la Seda (silk exchange). I read that this is a World Heritage site of UNESCO, so we…
The small town of Kotohira
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. The first stop of my travel in Kagawa prefecture in Japan was Kotohira city. During day time this city is very busy because it is located on...
The next day was sunny
[On the second day in Yokohama, Japan, the sun was shining and completely opposite of the bad weather of the previous day. And it was warm, too. If we had planned this trip one day...
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...
Eat the Excellent Pastel de Nata at the Famous Shop in Lisbon
There was one another place I wanted to go to while we were in the Belém district in Lisbon, Portugal, which is about 6km west of the city centre. It was the...
The hotel in front
We stayed in a hotel called Vis a Vis in Trieste in Italy.This hotel is just off Unita Square, which is the centre of the city, so the location was excellent.It opened...
And then, lunch
In Salamanca in the western part of Spain, we had planned to do some more sightseeing, but we spent more time at Casa Lis than expected, so we rushed to the Salamanca University...
Meat in Argentina – Bariloche
What I was looking forward to in Argentina was beef. We had our New Year’s Day dinner at a restaurant near our hotel in Bariloche called Manush and I ate the steak...
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...
