A sad Italian restaurant and a seedy bar
That evening in Tangier, a port city in northern Morocco, we looked for a restaurant called Macondo, recommended by our local guide. We soon found it and headed in without hesitation. It was…
Tétouan
The beautiful riad
We stayed at Riad la Maison Blanche in Tangier, an old port city in northern Morocco. On this trip, most of our accommodations were riads (traditional old mansions converted into hotels), and the…
Accompanied by a local guide
After Assilah in northern Morocco, our next stop was Tangier. We stayed overnight here. First, we visited the Caves of Hercules, which we had no interest in, and the nearby lighthouse (where the…
Disappointing hot spring
The thing I was looking forward to during the sight seeing sailing around Santorini was the hot spring which is supposed to appear around a small island of Palia Kamani.You can swim there….
The rise and fall
On one Sunday when we felt summer for the first time this year, I went to Piacenza in Emilia Romagna from Milan.When I got off the car, this huge Fernese Palace was in…
Devin Castle
We visited Devin Castle in the suburbs of Bratislava, the captal of Slovakia. This castle is a ruin and located on the hill which is just above the junction of Danube and…
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...
Pendant of the Byzantine Era
This is the pendant I bought in Lefkara village in Cyprus. This village is famous for its lace making, but their silverwork has got a long history, too. Once upon a time,...
Cathay Pacific Airways
Initially based in Shanghai, the two men eventually moved to Hong Kong and established the airline.
Nizza Monferrato
On the day we went to Piedmont with my Japanese friend, after eating a great lunch, we moved on to Nizza Monferrato. She read a novel recently that was set in this...
from St Ives to Dartmoor
The morning view in St Ives in Cornwall, south west England was very beautiful, too. The place where there had been many boats in the sea on the day before was land...
Restaurant managed by daddy
On the last day of our short holiday in Tuscany in Italy, we went to a restaurant called 13 Gobbi recommended by a staff in our hotel. It is in a...
Yebisu Beer
I heard that they give us 2 glasses of free beer, so I joined the tour in Yebisu Beer Museum.I did not know that Ebisu, a place in Tokyo was named after Yebisu...
From Oporto to Coimbra
Our destination this time were Coimbra and Monsanto in Portugal.We flew to Oporto and went from the airport to the train station called Campanha by 'Metro'.At the Metro station in the airport,...
