Apulia
Seafood tapas restaurant

Seafood tapas restaurant

In Otranto, in the southern Italian region of Apulia, our first-choice restaurant happened to be closed for lunch on Thursdays— and it was a Thursday. My husband mentioned that the owner—or someone who...

Apulia

Something more intense than the mosaic

During our summer holiday in the Apulia region of southern Italy, we visited the towns of Maglie and Otranto the following day. We stopped in Maglie because we had read that it featured…

Lecce

Back in Lecce

After visiting a beautiful church in Galatina—a town in the Salento region of Apulia, southern Italy—we had lunch at a restaurant outside of the town. However, I’m skipping the details of that meal…

Lombardy

Palazzo Te in Mantua

In addition to Teatro Bibiena, our other purpose in visiting Mantua in northern Italy this time was to visit Palazzo Te. Mantua was the stronghold of the powerful Gonzaga family, and while the Doge’s Palace…

Bergen

About the first time we went to Norway

As of December 2020, when Covid-19 is still rampant, we are not in a situation that we can easily go here and there as usual, so I have run out of new travel…

Cartagena de Indias

Fashionable Tapas restaurant

On the third day in Cartagena in Colombia, we had a free day. We went to a Tapas restaurant called Agua de Mar which was listed in our guidebook for lunch. This…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

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...
shopping
Shopping

Various things in Lisbon

We returned to Lisbon’s Rossio station from Sintra, Portugal, and then took a taxi to the Parliament building near our home (Airbnb). From here, we walked to Naco, a delicatessen shop that we...
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

A Major Source of Rice

We went to a restaurant called Antica Osteria ai Vini in the centre of Novara, a town in Piedmont in Italy. We chose this one because it had a good reputation on...
hotels
Hotels

Huge ryokan

On the second day of our family holiday in Noto Peninsula in Japan, we stayed in a huge ryokan called Notoraku in Wakura Onsen. They had even a bridge and a waterfall...
food
Restaurants

Nighttime drink

On our second day in Lyon, France, after a long day of walking around, we rested at the hotel and then headed out for an evening drink. While we typically have a main...
food
Food

Cicchetti specialty and restaurant

While we were enjoying our walk at night in Venice, we went down a small side road and found a little restaurant specialized in Cicchetti. On that day, we had had a big lunch, so...
transports
Transports

Holiday during our holiday, first to Modica

During our two-week stay in Syracuse, Sicily, we travelled away for one night. In other words, it was a little extravagant, as we wasted the cost of one night’s accommodation on Airbnb, but...