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…
Another Auschwitz
The tour to Auschwitz in Poland took us to Birkenau which is called Auschwitz 2 as well. This was built because the original Auschwitz became too full and most of the mass killing…
Visit Peschiera
On the day of excursion to Lake Garda, I visited another nice town called Peschiera.Apparently, it was developed as a base of military and had the different atmosphere from other towns.Soooo many places…
Always being repaired
This Forth Bridge is famous in Scotland. When we visited there I did not know that but apparently, the length is 2530 metres and completed in 1890. Before visiting here, I heard Scottish…
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...
Try to make a silver accessory
We originally planned to go to Jogasaki from Izu Atagawa in Japan, but because we noticed a leaflet of the silver studio “A&M”, we changed our tickets for Izu Kogen, while the...
The second winery
The second winery I visited on the day when I went to Langhe in Piedmont in Italy was called Gertotto.The first one was keen on trading abroad, but this one was more local...
Hotel of poets
We stayed one night in a town called Lugo in Emilia Romagna in Italy. We were surprised to know that the hotel we stayed called Ala D’Oro had a long history. It...
Seafood lunch overlooking the sea
In Procida, an island in southern Italy, we went looking for Ristorante Gorgonia, a restaurant in the old town recommended by Carlo, the taxi driver who toured the island. From the point where...
Visiting Yahiko Shrine, after eating manju
We ate Omokaru-manju, Japanese style bun, before going into Yahiko Shrine in Niigata, because my friend recommended this manju from Kameya shop.There were three tastes, soya sauce, brown sugar and sesame.I wanted to try...
All the way to
The main reason we stayed in Athens, Greece for 3 nights this time was to take a tour to the famous Meteora from here. We had read that there are many day tours...
