Inside a modern, massive mosque
The tour of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, has begun. The young man who guided us in English was very capable and interesting. Hassan II was the father of the current…
Casablanca
The main attraction here
For our End of the Year and New Year’s trip to Morocco, we left Fez and headed to Casablanca. I wondered why the agent had planned such a roundabout itinerary, considering Casablanca is…
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…
When we step out of the hotel
In the area of our hotel in Turin in Italy, there were many lovely villas.This one in the photo is called Casa Fenoglio Lafleur, built in 1902.The Art Nouveau style which was…
Imprisonment for fare-free riding
After spending a much more fulfilling time than I expected at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, we wondered how to get back to the city. We asked the friendly guy at the…
Stressful town
In Athens, we went to Acropolis as everyone else. Unfortunately, what I remember most about Acropolis is not about the ruin itself, but the fact that we nearly became a victim of a pickpocket….
Moscow-USSR-4
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. There were some small things that impressed me in Moscow, because things were different from the west: One of these was that the newspapers were basically free and a...
happy Mandrogi
The first port of call during our cruise in Russia was Mandrogi, a village on Svir River. This is a new village which was recognised as a village in 1999 and the...
Lufthansa Airlines
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or simply Lufthansa) is the flag carrier of Germany and one of the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size. Lufthansa was founded in 1926 in Berlin (the name was...
Restaurant ‘Teatro’
This is a photo of a plate in a restaurant called Teatro in Varese, a town in north Italy.The food there was sooo good that I want to introduce it.I took the grilled...
location and atmosphere was excellent but the staff were horrible
We visited Gdansk in Poland again. The last time was only 10 months before. This time, our hotel was Holland House which was located in the main pedestrian street called Dulgi Targ...
Afternoon tea and Japanese foods
During our one-month stay in Edinburgh, a couple of friends who live in London came to visit us. It’s been at least a year and a half since we’ve met, because the last...
the rabbit dish, Sardinian beer and the church
This was a normal weekday in Alghero, a town in the northwestern part of Sardinia, Italy. As always my husband had a walk in the morning and he went to the market and...
A bad start of our excursion to Procida
While spending our summer holiday on the island of Ischia in southern Italy, we took a day trip to the nearby island of Procida. On the main street of Forio where we were...
