Regional cuisine of the Aveyron
The first restaurant we went to in the Bercy district of Paris, France, where we stayed, was L’Auberge Aveyronnaise. My husband found and booked this restaurant online before the trip. It serves cuisine…
Paris
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…
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…
Fine Arts Museum in Valencia
We went to the Museo de Ballas Artes (Fine Arts Museum), too in Valencia in Spain. This was founded in 1913 and there are about 2000 works here, mainly of the 14th – 17th…
Fly to Lanzhou
From Kunming in China, we flew to Lanzhou, the important city in Silk Road along the Yellow River. When I got on the aeroplane of China Northwest Airlines (later merged with China…
The Church We Visited and the Ridiculous Barbershop
When we arrived at Praça do Comércio in Lisbon in Portugal, wedecided to look for the Castella cake shop, which we had been before, so that we could have a rest. We walked…
‘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.
A big impulse shopping
After enjoying the museum in Chiprovtsi, a carpet-weaving town in northwestern Bulgaria, we returned to our hotel. I wanted to buy a kilim woven by the owner of the inn, Ilya’s mother, as...
Taste of coconut
We had our last dinner in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in our tour leader’s favourite restaurant. It was a bit of a walk from Ipanema beach and I think it was called...
Note the windows
We stayed in Gloucester Bowden Hall #Hotel in #Cotswolds.The room was ordinary as it is one of the Accor chain hotels.The foods were not as special as they pretend to be, which...
Overlook Lake Como from a mountain
While staying in Seregno in Lombardy, Italy, we went on an excursion with my husband’s family to the mountains above Lake Como with two cars. It was a mountain called Monte San Primo...
Tartina
We tried Tartina in Milan, in Italy, this time. This is a small dish with a small amount of food on the bread, as you can see in the photo. It...
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...
