Lombardy
To Pizzighettone

To Pizzighettone

We visited Pizzighettone in Lombardy, Italy, to enjoy the autumn scenery before the days got too short. It’s an old town about 66 kilometres southeast of Milan, just over an hour’s drive from...

Lyon

Mural and trouble

Lyon, France, is home to many murals. It’s fun to wander around and look at them. After lunch, we still had some time before our return train, so we walked around a bit…

Lyon

This is a real bouchon

For our last day in Lyon, France, we made a reservation at La Meuniere, which was at the top of the list of recommended bouchons. It had closed two days prior, so we…

Lyon

Two churches

On our final day of a short trip to Lyon, France, the sky was a deep blue, a stark contrast to the previous day. First, we went to see the cathedral in the…

Boston

Hotels in the US are very expensive

We stayed in three hotels in the US this time. The first one was the Courtyard Marriott Downtown in Boston and the second was the Holiday Inn Express in New York and the…

Ibaraki

Cutting the hanging monkfish

On the second night of our short family trip to Ibaraki prefecture in Japan, we stayed in the Oarai Hotel facing the Oarai Beach. According to the website of this hotel, they have 12 different…

Lanzhou

The train journey from Lanzhou

On the last day in Lanzhou, the city with the Yellow River in China, we went to Baitashan Park. On the way, we came across a limousine to Haneda Airport in Tokyo….

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

USSR, Moscow 1980 – 3

This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. Walking around in Moscow, we were surprised to see no foods on the shelves in the supermarket, included the famous department store called Gum. But in the hotel we...
shopping
Shopping

Shopping is also a fun part of travelling

As expected, San Gimignano, a tourist destination in the Tuscany region of Italy, was very crowded. A wine festival was being held while the place was overflowing with tourists, making it even more...
airlines
Airlines

Air India

Air India is India’s national flag carrier. Although air transport was born in India on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquet, flying a Humber bi-plane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles...
food
Food

German foods are interesting

The representative of German food is sausage, but not only that. In this short trip. We ate quite a few interesting foods in Germany. This one in the photo is ‘liver dumpling’. It...
hotels
Hotels

To Miyako-jima

For the Easter holiday this year, we went back to Japan and extended our journey to Miyako-jima, one of the islands in Okinawa prefecture. Unfortunately, my husband injured his foot again, just...
food
Restaurants

Dinner on the day

We made a reservation for a restaurant on the first day in Barcelona, Spain, a long time ago. We thought it would be crowded as it was a Saturday night in this tourist...
food
Food

Hokkaido soup

This is a photo of 'Hokkaido' soup I had in Oberstein in Germany.It was written like that in their menu.Very nice pumpkin soup, that was.
transports
Transports

chaos of the port

The last destination of our holiday in Colombia was Isla Grande, one of the Rosario Islands which is about 35 km south west of Cartagena. This archipelago is made up of 27...