Pérouges
Picturesque stone village

Picturesque stone village

Pérouges, France, is a truly small stone village. The cobblestone streets are part of its charm, but they’re also extremely difficult to navigate. There was a church near the village entrance, so we...

Pérouges

The road to Pérouges

On this day, we travelled from Lyon, France, where we were staying, to the nearby village of Pérouges. I had previously searched for easy day trips from Lyon, and Pérouges was the first…

Lyon

Nighttime drink

On our second day in Lyon, France, after a long day of walking around, we rested at the hotel and then headed out for an evening drink. While we typically have a main…

Lyon

To Fourvière Hill

On our second day in Lyon, France, we climbed Fourvière Hill after lunch. There’s a funicular, so we decided to use that. The 72-hour metro ticket we bought on the first day was…

Athens

Performance by the guards

On our second day in Athens, Greece, my friend headed for the Acropolis and we headed for Lycavittus Hill. We had been to the Acropolis before, but it wasn’t something we wanted to…

Écija

Another lukewarm meat

In Ecija, a town in the Andalusian region of Spain, after visiting the museum, we went to the restaurant Casa Machin that we wanted to go to. The restaurant was housed in an…

Italy

A restaurant on top of a stable

When we went to Angera on Lake Maggiore, Italy, we went to look for a restaurant which has a good reputation on internet site. It is far from the lake itself in a…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Meditate in a Zen garden

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in Kansai area I had the opportunity to visit the temple Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, which has one of the most important Zen gardens in...
shopping
Shopping

Sandals of Sparta

This is a photo of the sandals I bought in Mykonos. Apparently the Spartan people were wearing them in the 8th century BC. I bought these from a man who designed them...
airlines
Airlines

Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered at Atatūrk Airport in Istanbul. According to company’’s official website, on 20th may 1933, the “State Airlines Administration” operating under the supervision of the...
food
Food

Mixed boiled meat

The speciality in and around Verona in Italy is a meal called Bollito. Basically, it is boiled mixed meat. The other foods are served by waiters, but for Bollito, a maestro came up...
hotels
Hotels

The hotel which used to be a powder magazine

The old town of Monopoli, south Italy is surrounded by the wall with a lot of cannons on top of it.I stayed a hotel just inside the wall called Hotel Don Ferrante.It opened...
food
Restaurants

strictly local foods

In the weekend in June when the temperature went up to 35 degrees, we had an excursion from Milan to Monte Isola, an island on Lake Iseo in Italy. It took...
food
Food

Beer country

Poland is a beer country. It was memorable that when I ordered beer instead of wine at a restaurant, the waiter bobbed his head in approval with a big smile in Krakow in...
transports
Transports

Nardo at night

That night, we went to Nardo, an old town which is about 17 km south of Porto Cesareo where we stayed in Salento region in Apulia in south Italy. I thought there...