Learning the word “Pignolo”
We spent this summer holiday in Lecce, an old city in the Puglia region of Italy. We chose this location because an intensive Tai Chi workshop—a passion of my husband’s—was being held there….
Lecce
Vigoleno, a tiny, charming village
Vigoleno, located in Italy‘s Emilia-Romagna region, is a truly tiny and charming village. We visited there for a day trip one Sunday in June. When we arrived at the car park, I could…
Art Museum and Wine Bar
Next in Edinburgh, Scotland, we visited the National Gallery. Looking back, I realised it had been a full eleven years since our last visit—not five, as I had thought. It is a museum…
Surprised to see a festival in the neighbourhood
When we went out to a supermarket as usual in one weekend in early August, we found a great many people gathering in front of a church. Everybody was wearing colourful cosutumes…
At the end of our travel
We returned to Madrid, the starting point of this trip, by train from Ávila in Spain. The station in Madrid we arrived after the journey, which took less than two hours on a…
Town hall
There is a big castle like building in Lugo in Emilia Romagna in Italy.The name is Rocca Estense and it is a medieval fortress.I thought it was a ruin and went into…
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...
Central Market that I hadn’t noticed before
We entered the Central Market in Florence, Italy for the first time. I’ve been to Florence many times since I was young, but I’ve never been here because I was distracted by the...
Traveling by Air: Connecting Worlds
We love exploring new destinations and the journey is often as exciting as the arrival. While we are currently updating our archives on airlines and flight experiences, we look forward to sharing more insights on...
after eating hams, walked in Madrid
We saw Museo del Jamon (ham museum) in Gran Via, the street where our hotel was in Madrid in Spain. When we entered, we realised it was a restaurant. Apparently, it is...
The view from the hotel
This time, we stayed in a hotel called Hotel du Lac in Gardone Riviera on the shore of Lake Garda. It is a three star hotel and the room was very basic, but...
Dinner in a Village with Thatched Houses
In the evening of the day that we enjoyed in Dartmoor, in the southwest of England, we had dinner in a village called North Bovey. Widecombe, the village we went to...
Plenty of butter
As soon as we arrived in Sansia by train and bus from Taipei, our Taiwanese friend said ' we have to eat this in Sansia' and took us to one shop selling Bull Horn...
To Bygdøy Peninsula Using Oslo Pass
We had a very short holiday in Oslo, staying only two nights, so we moved energetically. To do that, we bought a card called an Oslo Pass. This allowed us to...
