Swim in the sea, round one
A summer holiday wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the beach. We headed to Baia dei Turchi, a beach located about 5.5 kilometres along the coast from Otranto, in the Apulia region…
Lecce
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…
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…
Eastbourne…flower bed and war
Along the promenade on the sea in Eastbourne, England, there is Carpet Garden. They made this garden with the image of Persian Carpets. But during the WW2, this garden was used for growing onions. This…
Satisfying town of Mantua
After enjoying Palazzo Te in the historic city of Mantua in northern Italy, we stopped by the remains of a church called Tempio Leon Battista Alberti on the way back to the old…
Mecca for rock climbing
Barbizon, France, the home of painters, is located at the edge of the Fontainebleau Forest. We entered the forest from Barbizon village. At the entrance to the forest, there were reliefs of Millet…
Eat Italian food in Tokyo
This is my friend, Bangly's posting. Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of...
Talked with a woman at an amber stall
At one end of the market, Kalnciems Fair which was held outside of old town of Riga, there was a stall where a woman was selling the rough stone of...
Viaggiare in aereo: Connettere mondi
Amiamo esplorare nuove destinazioni e il viaggio è spesso emozionante quanto l’arrivo. Mentre stiamo aggiornando i nostri archivi sulle compagnie aeree e sulle esperienze di volo, non vediamo l’ora di condividere nuovi spunti su come...
Boiled eggs at Owakudani
Taking the rope-way, we went to Owakudani, where smoke from Hakone volcano was coming out. Here you can eat black boiled eggs. The taste is the same as white ones, though. They sell...
Hotel in Toledo
We stayed in a three star hotel called Hotel Domus Plaza Zocodover in Toledo, Spain.As the name suggests, it is located in a corner of Plaza Zocodover, which is the centre of...
Church of Montevergini and the best meal of the holiday
After seeing the cathedral, we headed for the next church, the Church of Montevergini in Noto in the south of Sicily in Italy. We found it easily, but the staff was...
Picanha
From Paraty in Brazil, we went to our last destination, Rio de Janeiro, by car. After arriving there around mid-day, we went to a restaurant called Boteco Belmonte near our hotel. What...
Tram
In Prague, many trams are running all over the place. The colour of all the trams is red and white, but the actual cars are various. The oldest wooden ones are very...
