Argan oil and goats
In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…
Essaouira
A modest New Year’s Eve
We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…
A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley
A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…
Vast salt lake
After enjoying shopping in Tozeur, south of Tunisia, we moved to Douz, a town even more south. On the way, we stopped at a vast salt lake called Chotto el Jerid. They…
Wine Tasting
Our full city tour in Buenos Aires in Argentina finished in front of a restaurant called Freud & Fahler, which was near our hotel in Palermo. We said goodbye to Elisabet, our…
Enjoying the scenery I wanted to see
Our next destination for our year-end trip to Morocco is the blue city, Chefchaouen. This is precisely why I decided to take this trip. There are several destinations I’ve always wanted to visit,…
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...
A big impulse shopping
After enjoying the museum in Chiprovtsi, a carpet-weaving town in northwestern Bulgaria, we returned to our hotel. I wanted to buy a kilim woven by the owner of the inn, Ilya’s mother, as...
Qantas Airlines
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest domestic and international airline. Registered originally as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS), Qantas is widely regarded as...
Orange salad
At lunch time, I went into a restaurant, just next to the fish market in Catania, Sicily. Of course the fresh sea-foods were excellent, but for me the orange salad was amazing. This...
A pretty room
This is a hotel room where we stayed in Evora, Portugal. It is very nicely furnished. The painting on the wall was done by a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, which was amazing. This house...
nice restaurant in the suburbs of mysterious Pomponesco
We went to Pomponesco in the north of Italy which belongs to the association of “The most beautiful villages in Italy”. In our experience, the villages of this association are really beautiful, including Asolo,...
We planned to eat lightly
There is a retaurant that we stayed on until 4pm though their closing time was 3pm.The name of the restaurant is La Zi Ottavio (uncle Ottavio).We arrived in Monopoli after 2pm and worried...
Be careful about the pickpockets
The No.14 metro in Paris must be new.All the stations were modern.There was an announcement there in Japanese soon after French, saying ' Be careful, there are pickpockets'.After Japanese followed English, Italian, etc.There...
