The district of Bercy
We easily arrived at Cour St-Emilion station, the nearest metro station to our reserved hotel, via Metro Line 14 from Orly Airport in Paris, France. It was smoother than we expected; we arrived…
Paris
The problem in Paris this time
Almost every trip to Paris, France, presents some kind of problem. Trains are convenient for travelling from Milan to Paris. However, in early May, the Gare de Lyon, the Paris train station, was…
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant
For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my…
Telephone Boxes
The red telephone boxes are London‘s symbol. There is an interesting object using phone boxes in Kingston, just outside of London. It is called Out of Order and made by David Mach in 1988….
Cherry blossoms
On the last day of our family holiday in the north of Japan, we came back to Morioka City and went to see the cherry blossoms. In Kanto area where Tokyo is,…
Rich monastery and the painful beach
On our tour of eastern Crete, Greece, we finally arrived at Toplou Monastery, one of our destinations. We paid €5 to enter, but there was no explanation beyond the pamphlet’s description that it…
‘Read’ a pasta dish
Talking with a Japanese friend of mine, Koji, who is a wine and food expert, I learned that there is an Italian dish called Napolitan in Japan, which I did not know that existed.
Selling by weight
In Volterra in Tuscany in Italy, we found one accessory shop which reproduce the ancient designs of Etruscans. The shop is called Fabula Etrusca and it is a cooperative of 5...
Cave restaurant
After visiting Noravank monastery in Armenia, we went to a restaurant in a cave in this gorge. It was too simple to call a restaurant really. It was decorated with the...
A lovely hotel in Budapest where we went to by a propeller plane
We had a short trip from Milan, Italy to Budapest, Hungary. First, let’s talk about the flight at that time. I was surprised when we arrived at the gate. There were only a ...
the sea was disappointing but the dinner was excellent in Rhodes
We came all the way to Rhodes in Greece, so we should bathe in the beautiful sea at least once. That was what we thought and decided to go to a...
Japanese restaurant in Italy
In Italy, Japanese foods are popular, too.I went to a restaurant called ' Kokoro' in Sesto San Giovanni, just outside of Milan.This one serves fusion cooking between Italian and Japanese, run by a...
at the transfer station on the way to Orvieto
On the third day of our short holiday in Umbria, we went to Orvieto from Perugia as a day trip. In retrospect, I think it was reckless, because it took about 2...
