Liguria
Feeling déjà vu in Santa Margherita Ligure

Feeling déjà vu in Santa Margherita Ligure

We had a short trip to Liguria in Northern Italy for the first time in a while. This time, our destination was Santa Margherita Ligure, a place we’d never been to before. After...

Piedmont

In Novara, where we went to see the ballet

Novara, located in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, is not well known, but it has many attractions, including a tall domed church and medieval buildings. And for a provincial city, it’s home…

Lombardy

Dining at the monastery

My husband told me he’d made a reservation at a restaurant inside the monastery, so I was very curious to see what kind of simple food I’d be served. The Torba Monastery is…

Lombardy

The spectacular St. Peter’s Church

The reason we decided to go to Pizzighettone in Lombardy, Italy, on this day was because we had seen a photo of this extravagant church, St. Peter’s Church. I had never seen a…

Caceres

Attractive cistern

I think the highlight of sightseeing in Caceres, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is the cistern in the basement of the museum. When I first saw the photo at the tourist information…

Denmark

The bus driver

Arriving in Denmark from England by boat, first problem was to find an ATM to get Danish Krona. We could have exchanged money in the ship, but we thought the rate would be…

Helsinki

‘Dinner in the Sky’

When we were walking in Helsinki, we looked up and found this machine. At first I thought it was a part of amusement park and did not think much of it, but…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Excursion to Nara

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in Osaka we decided to go to Nara for one day. Nara was the first capital of Japan. It took us almost one hour...
shopping
Shopping

San Antonio de Areco, the Gaucho town

The next day, we had an excursion to San Antonio de Areco from Buenos Aires in Argentina. This town is situated 113km northwest of Buenos Aires in the Pampas with the population...
airlines
Airlines

Virgin Atlantic Airlines

According to company’s official web site, Virgin Atlantic Airways is a success story. Back In the early 80s Richard Branson was probably best known for Virgin Records – the legendary record label that signed major...
food
Food

Bread salad

This is a photo of the Bread Salad we ate in Monsanto in Portugal. It was very different from Italian Panzanella which is a salad dish with bread in it. This one...
hotels
Hotels

Ryokan with Sunset and Murakami Kibori Tsuishu

We stayed at the seaside Ryokan (a Japanese style hotel) called ‘Taikanso Senami no Yu’ in Murakami in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan. According to the information on the internet, the hot spring...
food
Restaurants

Beer garden

The rooftop beer gardens are one of the Japanese seasonal traditions for summer. A friend of mine had booked a table in...
food
Food

Seafood and whisky

We had dinner on the Isle of Barra in the Hebrides of Scotland at the hotel we stayed at. The hotel is Castlebay Hotel in Castlebay, the only town-like town on the island....
transports
Transports

Keep it up, Red Arrow!

In the Duomo square in Milan, Italian National Railway's 'Red Arrow' was exhibited.This is apparently the newest model called 'Freccia Rossa 1000'.It can run at 400km/h, and it will be operated to run actually...