Emilia Romagna
Vigoleno, a tiny, charming village

Vigoleno, a tiny, charming village

Vigoleno, located in Italy‘s Emilia-Romagna region, is a truly tiny and charming village. We visited there for a day trip one Sunday in June. When we arrived at the car park, I could...

Edinburgh

Art Museum and Wine Bar

Next in Edinburgh, Scotland, we visited the National Gallery. Looking back, I realised it had been a full eleven years since our last visit—not five, as I had thought. It is a museum…

Edinburgh

Have to go there at least once

We revisited the Whiski Bar in Edinburgh, Scotland—a place we’d always felt we simply *had* to visit. We remembered it was located on the Royal Mile, so we found it quite quickly. We…

Edinburgh

This old castle is a hidden gem

The next morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, it was raining. And it wasn’t just a drizzle; it was a proper downpour. We had decided to visit Craigmillar Castle—a spot my husband found online—so we…

Crimea

Building boom

In the southen part of Crimea on the sea, they were building high rise apartments one after another, which was damaging the view. They are for Ukrainian or Russian rich people’s…

Italy

Small Acqua Alta

The next morning when we went out in Venice, we found that the Piazza San Marco was flooded. There were passages made up of stools so that people could walk without getting…

Italy

Having a Lunch in Arezzo

On the way to the south, of course I got hungry. So I stopped in a pretty town called Arezzo in Tuscany. The restaurant  I was planning to go was closed, and a…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. A lot of people in Italy know the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his works, for example “the wave” or “36 views of mount Fuji”. They are on...
shopping
Shopping

National stone of Argentina

The things I was looking forward to in Argentina was not only meat, but also the pink gemstone called Rhodochrosite.
airlines
Airlines

Viaggiare in aereo: Connettere mondi

Amiamo esplorare nuove destinazioni e il viaggio è spesso emozionante quanto l’arrivo. Mentre stiamo aggiornando i nostri archivi sulle compagnie aeree e sulle esperienze di volo, non vediamo l’ora di condividere nuovi spunti su come...
food
Food

Restaurant which used to be a stable

On the second day in #Martina #Franca in south Italy, we went to a restaurant for dinner which we had had a good feeling when we passed there in the afternoon.The name...
food
Restaurants

Revisited 2 restaurants in Monza

We used to live in Monza half of our time, a town north of Milan, Italy. Even after we stopped living there, we used to visit Monza a lot, so we are very...
food
Food

Orecchietta

Orecchietta is a pasta which people in Puglia in south Italy often eat. Orecchio means a ear in Italian and this pasta looks like a small ear. This photo was taken in a...
transports
Hotels

To Oslo

We went to Oslo in Norway for the first time during the Spring Bank Holiday towards the end of May. Oslo was one of the remaining capital cities we had never...