The place we stayed this time was
In Edinburgh, Scotland, we stayed at the Heeton Concept Apart Hotel, located fairly close to the centre of the new town. We chose it based on location and price, but I realized it…
Edinburgh
Five years have passed since then
We went to Edinburgh, Scotland for the first time in five years. Our previous trip was a month-long stay, but this time it was just a short four-night trip. It was my husband’s…
Romeo and Juliet at the Bastille
After spending a night at a friends’ house in Fontainebleau, France, our friend and her husband joined us in Paris. After meeting up with mutual friends—a couple living in Paris and another in…
After eating frogs, visited Morimondo Abbey
It seems that they often eat frogs outside of Milan in Italy, especially south west of the city. We had eaten them in Pavia before, but this time, we went to a restaurant called La…
King’s refuge
The last place we went with the south German castle tour was Linderhof castle. This is one of the three castles which Ludwig Ⅱ, the king of Bavarian Kingdom built. He particularly…
Concert at Frauenkirche
We stayed in Dresden in Germany for a week. On the last night, we went to a concert in Frauenkirche. We thought we bought good seats, the front row of the first floor,…
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...
Gintaro
This is a pendant I bought from a man who had a stall in Basanaviciaus Street in Palanga in Lithuania. He made it himself using the local amber and African wood ....
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...
Paradise for gourmet
We went to #Borough #Market in #London where all of the gourmets in London gather.Our purpose was to buy rabbit meat which we cannot find in supermarkets.Here they open everyday except Sunday,...
Lovely hotel and town walk
Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located...
getting up very early to go to Faro
We got up at 3 am again, this time to go to Algarve in the south of Portugal. Every time we say that we must not plan like this, but because of...
Castella
Years ago, when I visited Portugal for the first time, I looked around for Castella, the cake which is popular in Japan and believed to be Portuguese. But the castella look-a-like cakes were lemon cakes....
This time, a long journey by bus
During this trip to Bulgaria, we didn’t plan to do sightseeing in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria because we had visited there on a tour before. However, due to the public transport network,...
