Lecce
Learning the word “Pignolo”

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....

Emilia Romagna

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…

Edinburgh

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…

Edinburgh

Have to go there at least once

We revisited the Whiski Bar in Edinburgh, Scotland—a place we’d always felt we simply *had* to visit. We remembered it was located on the Royal Mile, so we found it quite quickly. We…

Whitstable

Went to Whitstable to eat oysters

We usually have a short trip every year at the end of September, but this year the Covid-19 gained momentum again, so we gave up having a holiday. But it’s boring to stay…

Italy

Biggest antique market in Italy

The main purpose of our visit to Arezzo in Italy was to see some paintings that my friend wanted to see, but the weekend we were there happened to be the huge…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

‘Read’ a pasta dish

Talking with a Japanese friend of mine, Koji, who is a wine and food expert, I learned that there is an Italian dish called Napolitan in Japan, which I did not know that existed.
shopping
Shopping

That evening’s walk

After a thorough sightseeing tour of Fez, Morocco, we took a stroll through the medina surrounding our riad that evening. Ideally, we wanted to descend the hill and return to the more traditional...
airlines
Airlines

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...
food
Food

Seeking Schweinshaxe

As soon as we arrived in Stuttgart, Germany, we got off the train and headed to a restaurant called Paulaner am alten Postplatz. When we got there, it was a wooden restaurant that...
hotels
Hotels

Typical resort hotel

After the grand Turkey tour, which I had to get up early every day, I fly over to Izmir and took bus to Cesme peninsula. I was a little apprehensive about moving around...
food
Restaurants

Very atmospheric restaurant

We went back to Turin in Italy for business. This time we were prepared to go to the restaurant where we could not go last time because of the timing. The long...
food
Food

Beer with Honey and Our Meal

Our hotel in Gdansk in Poland was located in the Old Town, which was not that exciting, but fortunately the restaurant recommended on the internet was just around the corner. It was...
transports
Transports

Another Cable Car

There is another cable car in Dresden in Germany. To be accurate, this one is a suspension railway and it was opened in May, 1901. An engineer in Cologne invented it and...