Essaouira
Argan oil and goats

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,…

Ourika Valley

A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley

A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…

Marrakesh

That night

After a full day of sightseeing in Marrakesh, Morocco, we went to a bar called La Pergola where we could enjoy alcohol. As I’ve mentioned many times before, in Morocco, alcohol has been…

Latvia

In between sightseeing, we had ice tea

We continued our sightseeing in Riga. After ‘Three Brothers’ we came across Our Lady of Sorrows Church, so we went in. It is a Cathoric church built in the…

Tokyo

Celebrate My Mum’s Birthday in Tokyo

My mother had her birthday while we were there in Japan this time. It was a rare occasion that we were with her on the day, so we celebrated all together….

Japan

Eat Italian food in Tokyo

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

‘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.
airlines
Airlines

Lufthansa Airlines

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or simply Lufthansa) is the flag carrier of Germany and one of the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size. Lufthansa was founded in 1926 in Berlin (the name was...
food
Food

The Wine Festival

July seems to be the month of festivals in Germany.After the Bridge Festival in Heidelberg, I came across the Wine Festival in Freiburg.Lots of middle to old age people were there, too.Here you...
food
Restaurants

We ate horse meat

We ate horse meat in Parma in Italy. We went to a restaurant called Osteria dello Singaro which had a good reputation in the internet site.
food
Food

Only bread?

I ate Fondue in Zermatt in Switzerland.I thought I had eaten Fondue before somewhere, but it was not true.Because I did not expect that you put only bread in the melted cheese.The cheese...
transports
Transports

used the underground train to go shopping

It was Sunday on the third day of our stay in Buenos Aires in Argentina. For me, it was the shopping day I was looking forward to. Although many of the ordinary...