Lecce
Evening Tai Chi Performance

Evening Tai Chi Performance

We ended up spending our summer holiday in Lecce, in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, because my husband was attending a special Tai Chi workshop there. On this particular day, he returned...

Apulia

Eat local cuisine from Apulia

In Nardò, a town in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, we had a reservation at a meat-focused restaurant called “Gli Artigiani.” My husband found it online and made the booking; it wasn’t…

Apulia

Revisiting Nardò

We had visited Nardò, in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, on a previous trip to the area. It was a charming town, but I felt I hadn’t really explored it thoroughly, so…

Lecce

Ballet in Piazza del Duomo

During our summer holiday in Lecce—a historic town in the Apulia region of Southern Italy—we spent an evening watching a ballet performance at an open-air theatre set up in the Piazza del Duomo….

Paris

Lovely Lunch During the Demonstration

We arrived at our booked restaurant, Au Petit Riche in Paris without much delay while the Yellow Vest demonstration was at its height. However, the friend who lives in Paris and who…

Piedmont

In Novara, where we went to see the ballet

Novara, located in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, is not well known, but it has many attractions, including a tall domed church and medieval buildings. And for a provincial city, it’s home…

Gilgit

Sightseeing around Gilgit

On the second day in Gilgit, the town in the northern Pakistan, we had some pancakes for breakfast and had a chat with the manager of this hotel, North Inn. He was…

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Miranda Friends

A Restaurant, Europe and Japan together

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. I read recently that in Italy some restaurants that serve mix of Italian and Japanese cookings. In Osaka, in Japan, I had the opportunity to have a...
airlines
Airlines

Traveling by Air: Connecting Worlds

We love exploring new destinations and the journey is often as exciting as the arrival. While we are currently updating our archives on airlines and flight experiences, we look forward to sharing more insights on...
food
Food

Bread salad

This is a photo of the Bread Salad we ate in Monsanto in Portugal. It was very different from Italian Panzanella which is a salad dish with bread in it. This one...
hotels
Hotels

A big hotel

After coming back from Monsanto to Coimbra in Portugal, we stayed in a 4 star hotel called Vila Gale. It was a big hotel where an international conference was being held. This...
food
Restaurants

ant sauce

We decided to go to the restaurant in the cultural school, Escuela Tierra de Artes in Barichara in Colombia on the day we had a full day of walking and sightseeing tour...
food
Food

Warming up with sake tasting

One of the main special products in Niigata is Japanese Sake without any doubt.We visited Takarajima sake brewery without booking.This small brewery was founded in 1885 and seemed to be one of those which...