Learning the word “Pignolo”
We spent this summer holiday in Lecce, an old city in the Puglia region of Italy. We chose this location because an intensive Tai Chi workshop—a passion of my husband’s—was being held there….
Lecce
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…
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…
Tsar’s family
The Livadia Palace where they held Yalta Conference was originally built as a summer retreat for the last tsar of the Romanovs in 1911. Russian revolution happened in 1917, so they…
Manarola in Cinque Terre
The second from the south in Cinque Terre is Manarola.This town in famous for its huge Nativity made on the hill.Apparently it gets light up in the dark hours, but unfortunately I did…
Walk in Evora in the rain
After having a satisfying lunch in Evora, a town in the Alentejo region of Portugal, we walked around the town. Due to the bad weather, to be honest, I wanted to go back,…
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...
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...
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...
Enjoyed the Scottish speciality
Haggis is probably the most famous Scottish food. When I said to my sister in Japan, “I’m going to eat haggis,” she said “what’s that?” and searched on the internet. And she said,...
The functional good hotel
This time in Paris, we stayed in a hotel called Best Western Hotel Opera d’Antin, situated just behind the Galeries Lafeyette. In fact I suspect it is in a same building...
Dining in Heraklion
Well, our summer holiday in Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, has finally come to an end. After checking out of our Airbnb, we took a taxi to Heraklion, where the airport is...
Representative of Sicilian sweet
The Lipari island is about one hour from the main Sicily by hovercraft.So the sweets there are mainly Sicilian.I had this Cannolo in a small wine shop/restaurant called Essepiu' Enoteche.I looked up and...
Going Up the East Hill by the ‘Lift’
After a satisfactory lunch in Hastings in the south of England, we went up the East Hill by East Hill Lift. The station was just next to the restaurant. The lift...
