Paris
The district of Bercy

The district of Bercy

We easily arrived at Cour St-Emilion station, the nearest metro station to our reserved hotel, via Metro Line 14 from Orly Airport in Paris, France. It was smoother than we expected; we arrived...

Paris

The problem in Paris this time

Almost every trip to Paris, France, presents some kind of problem. Trains are convenient for travelling from Milan to Paris. However, in early May, the Gare de Lyon, the Paris train station, was…

Lombardy

The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant

For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my…

Marrakesh

And so the journey comes to an end

Our year-end trip to Morocco has finally come to an end. By the time we returned to Marrakesh from our excursion to Essaouira, it was already getting dark, and we were caught in traffic that…

Meteora

Wear a long skirt when you visit a monastery

Meteora in Greece is famous for its landscape of monasteries perched on top of strangely shaped rocks. After lunch, we enjoyed these views. I wasn’t surprised because there are pictures of it being…

Japan

Huge ryokan

On the second day of our family holiday in Noto Peninsula in Japan, we stayed in a huge ryokan called Notoraku in Wakura Onsen. They had even a bridge and a waterfall…

Taiwan

The guards are all tall here

The second day in Taiwan, we had a group tour. The first place we went was Martyr’s Shrine where enshrines the dead souldiers. The tourists come here to see the change of the…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

People in Osaka

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting I don’t have enough experience to evaluate the different characters of Japanese people depending on where they are from, but soon after I went out of the...
shopping
Shopping

shopping in Burano

One of the purposes of our holiday in Venice this time was island hopping. So we wanted to go to the island of San Francesco del Deserto where there is a monastery...
food
Food

Local beer everywhere

In the island of Mando, I thought there was nothing other than the nature, but I found something special, which is the local beer. Well, the beer itself was not that special, but...
hotels
Hotels

The hotel with not enough local colours

In Munich, we stayed in Sofitel near the main station. We chose this because when I looked at the photos online, it seemed to have some local characters, though it was a...
food
Restaurants

Interesting and Eerie Pub

On the way back from Dartmoor, in the southwest of England, we stopped at a village called Colnbrook, near Heathrow Airport, before going back to London. We had lunch in a ...
food
Food

Eat a sausage in Rynek Glowny

Before forgetting all, I would like to write about my travel in the past. First, Krakow in Poland I went in May 2009 with a friend of mine. I remember that because the...
transports
Transports

Punting in Canterbury

The name of the river running through Canterbury in the south of England is the River Stour. It is a narrow river like a canal, and on the river they were offering...