Northumberland
A used bookshop in an old train station

A used bookshop in an old train station

Alnwick, an old town in Northumberland, England, has more to offer than just its castle. One such attraction is the used bookshop, “Barter Books.” What makes it special is that it was once...

Northumberland

In the town of Alnwick

The minibus tour that departed from Edinburgh, Scotland, crossed the border into England. You might think it’s strange to call it a “border” since it’s all part of the UK, but the UK…

Kelso

On a tour

On our second day in Edinburgh, Scotland, we took a tour heading south. The tour company was our usual, Rabbie’s. We’ve used this company quite a few times since our first tour in…

Edinburgh

In the UK, fish and chips

In Edinburgh, Scotland, I was already starving when we checked into our hotel. As usual, my husband searched for a place nearby where we could eat something nice, and found a fish and…

South Korea

Jump!

We went to a theatre to see something called “Jump!” in Seoul. It is a comedy with Kung-Fu  performance. My sister loves it and this was her second time to see this. It…

Crete

Rich monastery and the painful beach

On our tour of eastern Crete, Greece, we finally arrived at Toplou Monastery, one of our destinations. We paid €5 to enter, but there was no explanation beyond the pamphlet’s description that it…

Italy

Palio

This was the second time for me to visit Volterra in Tuscany of Italy. This time we saw a lot of flags all over the town. According to the pizza restaurant,…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

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...
shopping
Shopping

Blue John and Haircut

On the last day of our short holiday in Lincoln, the city in the middle of England, we went into a jewellery shop that had interested me during our stay. The reason...
airlines
Airlines

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...
food
Food

I treated myself to the expensive tea.

In the Taipei group tour, 'tea seminar' was included.Tea is Taiwan's well known speciality.We got explanation and tasting of a few kinds of tea including oolong tea.The most attractive one was Puer Tea, which...
hotels
Hotels

feeling as if we lived there

The hotel we stayed at in Warsaw after coming back from Gdansk was called Residence St. Andrews Palace. I did not know until we got there, but it was not exactly a...
food
Food

Excellent Egg Tart

This is a photo of the egg tarts I ate at a cafe in Entroncamento station in Portugal. We left very early on the day and missed breakfast, so I ate this...
transports
Transports

The Journey to Milan

From Freiburg in Germany to Milan in Italy, I planned to take two trains, changing once at Basel in Switzerland, arriving at Milan at around 11am.But when I got the Freiburg station very...