It’s not really a travelling..
This time in London, England, we stayed at a large hotel called Dorsett Shepherds Bush London. It’s located on the other side of Shepherd’s Bush Green from the Shepherd’s Bush underground station, so…
Rabat
The woes of low-cost airlines
We suddenly decided to fly from our home in northern Italy to London, England to do some errand. Regular airlines were surprisingly expensive, so we decided to fly with low-cost airline Ryanair. Low-cost…
Lunch in Nervi
While strolling around Nervi in Liguria, northern Italy, we sat on a bench just as the main street neared its end. And my husband started searching online for a place to grab a…
Performance by the guards
On our second day in Athens, Greece, my friend headed for the Acropolis and we headed for Lycavittus Hill. We had been to the Acropolis before, but it wasn’t something we wanted to…
Turkish carpet
In Cappadocia in Turkey, visiting ‘ carpet school’ was in our itinerary. It must be true that they teach weaving there, but main purpose was to sell us their carpets. After listening that Turkish…
Gorgeous ballroom
Blackpool in north west England is famous for ballroom dancing. It was shown in the film, Shall We Dance?, too. They have …
Relaxed in a Jazz bar in Kobe
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. Our friend Okazawa-san accompanied us in Kobe city. It is only half an hour by train from Osaka. Kobe is a city near the mountain and the...
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...
American Airlines
On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day,...
I tried Mate tea in Iguazu
Our tour leader, who was English but an expert on the life in South America, was drinking Mate all the time from the start of our travels. He had his own cup...
The only flaw was that he was stingy
In Sorrento, southern Italy, where we spent the New Year holidays, we stayed at an Airbnb as usual. It was the fifth floor apartment in a convenient location, almost right in front of...
very good dinner in Dartmoor
This was our second visit to Dartmoor National Park in Devon in south west England. This time it was a gathering for a club that our friend organise and we visited his...
The first dinner
The first restaurant we went in Klaipeda in Lithuania was Friedricho which was listed in our guide book.This was a complex where there were many restaurants with the same name in one...
starting sailing
We were in Saint Petersburg for two nights staying on the moored ship, but on the third day at 7 pm, finally we started sailing. The water of the Neva river was...
