Marrakesh
And so the journey comes to an end

And so the journey comes to an end

Our year-end trip to Morocco has finally come to an end. By the time we returned to Marrakesh from our excursion to Essaouira, it was already getting dark, and we were caught in traffic that...

An astonishing number of boats
Essaouira

An astonishing number of boats

We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…

Argan oil and goats
Essaouira

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…

Beautiful Asolo
Italy

Beautiful Asolo

We had a short holiday in Veneto in Italy. The first place we went was Asolo, a pretty town on top of a hill. We parked our car on the way up…

Walk in the twilight and a restaurant
Syracuse

Walk in the twilight and a restaurant

After seeing a puppet show, a famous Sicilian performing art, in Syracuse, Italy, we took a walk in the old town of Ortigia. From the south to the north along the east…

Painted woman’s restaurant
Italy

Painted woman’s restaurant

In Muggia in Italy, which is close to the border to Slovenia, we went in to a restaurant called Lilibontempo. Muggia is a fishing village and there seemed a lot of seafood…

miranda-friends
Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e
Miranda Friends

Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. A lot of people in Italy know the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his works, for example “the wave” or “36 views of mount Fuji”. They are on...
shopping
Carmo Convent and Sardine Shop
Shopping

Carmo Convent and Sardine Shop

The weather was lovely on the third day in Lisbon in Portugal, too. Unfortunately, because of my husband’s leg injury, we could not do much sightseeing this time, but just to enjoy...
airlines
All Nippon Airways
Airlines

All Nippon Airways

According to company’s official website, in December 1952, Japan Helicopter & Aeroplane Transports Co., Ltd was established with the goal of restoring regular air transportation services disrupted by WW II. The company started a helicopter...
food
Coca tea for the first time in my life
Food

Coca tea for the first time in my life

We drank Coca tea for the first time in our life on the hill of Monserrate in Bogota. Coca, as you know is the leaf which could be processed to make cocaine. Monserrate is the...
hotels
Room With The View
Hotels

Room With The View

Because the hotel we had booked in Paphos in Cyprus was horrible, we had to look for another place. I would have thought that we should go to the tourist office and...
food
Restaurant in Sorrento
Restaurants

Restaurant in Sorrento

This is a photo of the Bruschetta we ate in Sorrento in southern Italy. Very simple, but the tomato tasted wonderful. This is only possible in the south. I chose the spaghetti vongole,...
food
Local dish
Food

Local dish

I went to see Hadrian’s Wall in north England with friends. On the way, we stopped for lunch at a town called Brampton. The speciality around here is Cumberland Sausage, made from pork...
transports
By Frecciarossa
Transports

By Frecciarossa

We went to Rome from #Milan by high speed train, #Frecciarossa.On the way, it was non stop and took 2 hours and 55 minutes.On the way back, it was a slower one...