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…

Relaxing town of Kirkby Lonsdale
England

Relaxing town of Kirkby Lonsdale

 In June, we visited our friends in north west England. They took us to a town called Kirkby Lonsdale, which had a very relaxing atmosphere. We walked along a river and then had a…

The town whose name is gravestone
Italy

The town whose name is gravestone

The name of Sansepolcro, a town in Tuscany in Italy, where we stayed one night means ‘holy gravestone’. That is because this town was founded around 1000AD by two pilgrims who brought…

Symbol of Brazil
Brazil

Symbol of Brazil

The first place we visited in Rio de Janeiro was Colcovado mountain where the huge statue of Christ the Redeemer is situated. This statue is the symbol of Brazil. The mountain is 700m high and…

miranda-friends
Moscow-USSR-2
Miranda Friends

Moscow-USSR-2

This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we started our stay, they gave us our group itinerary, which included our free days to do whatever we wanted. But we were allowed to move around only...
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
Lufthansa Airlines
Airlines

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...
food
The restaurant with good piglet meal
Food

The restaurant with good piglet meal

On the first night, we wanted to go to the restaurant listed in our guide book, but that one was fully booked.A woman there pointed ” That one is good” and it...
hotels
The historic hotel and old Havana
Hotels

The historic hotel and old Havana

This is a continuation of our trip to Cuba. The next day, we left Varadero’s unrealistic blue sea and moved to Havana, where we had started our journey. The taxi driver who came...
food
Dinner that night
Restaurants

Dinner that night

On the day we stayed in Chefchaouen, the blue city of Morocco, we missed lunch, so we looked for a place to eat dinner. Initially, despite our previous experience, we tried a restaurant...
food
meat dish in Solferino
Food

meat dish in Solferino

I saw a weird photo of a wall with many skulls on a website and found out that it was in a town called Solferino which is not too far from Milan...
transports
Crossing to Gozo by the ferry
Transports

Crossing to Gozo by the ferry

I went over to Gozo, the sencond island of Malta.Before my travelling to Malta, I had read somewhere that there was a helicopter service between the islands.I was looking forward to it, but...