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…
Essaouira
A modest New Year’s Eve
We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…
A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley
A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…
Fantastic scenery
After dinner I had near Piazza San Marco in Venice, I came back to the Piazza itself and got really surprised to see the fantstic scenery.The water which once went down, had come…
Wedding Eve
One of my colleagues is getting married. She was born and brought up in London, England, but she is a Sikh Indian and so is her partner. Therefore, the wedding was held in…
Stop at Dhermi Village
After lunch in Porto Palermo on the Albanian Riviera, we headed further north along the coast. After a series of hairpin turns, we crossed the highest pass in the area at 1,100 metres….
In Moscow 1980
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we landed at the Moscow airport in April 1980, at the passport control we we found the officials wearing uniforms, with no smiles or no expressions. They looked...
buying a saddlebag from a Bakhtiari family
We had a long drive in the hilly terrain from Daran, a small town in Iran to the area called Marboreh. On the way, there was a dam and we were checked...
Emirates airlines
Emirates is an airline based at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. According to the company’s official website, On 25th October 1985, Emirates flew its first routes out of Dubai with just two...
Photo gallery: Italy, Verezzi – on the table, Dec.2012
Italy, Verezzi – on the table, Dec.2012
Hotel where Napoleon’s army was stationed
When we had a short holiday in Veneto in north Italy, we stayed one night at a hotel called Ca'Sette which was in the suburbs of Bassano del Grappa. This property was...
The skillful young chef, Toshiro
In Vercelli, a town in Piedmont, Italy, we had lunch at a restaurant called Ristorante Le Risaie. As usual, my husband found the restaurant on the internet, and the name of the chef...
Mixed boiled meat
The speciality in and around Verona in Italy is a meal called Bollito. Basically, it is boiled mixed meat. The other foods are served by waiters, but for Bollito, a maestro came up...
The reason why we decided to go to this town
We went to Stuttgart, Germany for the first time. It had been a long time since I had been outside Italy. The reason is that it took me nine months to get a...
