Essaouira

An astonishing number of boats

We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…

Essaouira

Argan oil and goats

In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…

Marrakesh

A modest New Year’s Eve

We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…

Portugal

Bullfighting in Portugal

On the last day, we took a hop-on-hop-off sight seeing bus in Lisbon. And I learned that the bull fighting in Portugal do not kill the bulls. Also, I leaned that in Portugal…

Lombardy

Mysterious laundry woman

When I visited Pavia, south of Milan, I found this statue along the Ticino river.At first I thought she is ironing, but in fact, washing clothes or linens by hand.The title of…

Malta

Mass was being celebrated today, too

 St.Mary’s Church in Mosta in Malta has got the third largest dome in Europe. During the WW2, when they were celebrating the Mass with a lot of people, the bomb hit the…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Udon of Kagawa

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. Kagawa prefecture in Japan is famous for its Udon (kind of noodles prepared with flour of wheat). According to my Japanese friend, Udon that you can find...
shopping
Shopping

walk in the morning and then shopping

The weather was very nice on the second day in Tavira in Portugal. Our hotel was on top of the hill, so we started to walking down, visiting Igreja de Santa Maria...
airlines
Airlines

Air France

Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France (north of Paris). The airline’s global hub is at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport. According to the...
food
Food

Special noodle called Houtou

We travelled Fuji/Hakone area in Japan.This is a photo of a noodle meal called Houtou.Its noodle is thicker and shorter than ordinary Udon noodle.There was a menu with bear meat, and of course...
hotels
Hotels

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...
food
Restaurants

the restaurant of Aphrodite

The receptionist at our hotel in Zakynthos Island in Greece suggested “Why don’t you going to the restaurant in my village?”, so we decided to go there. It is a small inland...
food
Food

About simple lunch and waiting for the bus

After visiting Bachkovo Monastery in Bulgaria, we had a light lunch at one of the cafeterias along the approach. The name is Bistro Abdera. The reason I chose this one among the cafeterias...
transports
Transports

voyage on Delta

We went through the waterways on the Delta where the Parana River merges with La Plata River in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in Argentina on the sight seeing boat for about...