Argan oil and goats
In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…
Essaouira
A modest New Year’s Eve
We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…
A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley
A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…
Huge statue of Buddha in Kamakura
This was the first time to see the huge statue of Buddha in Kamakura since I was a high school student. I did not get surprised by the size this time, but to be…
A Monkey
This is a statue of a monkey located at one end of the Old Bridge (Alte Brucke) in the old town in Heidelberg, Germany. According to the leaflet I got from the tourist…
The Bigger the Better?
I had seen the statue of Buddha in Ushiku in Ibaraki, Japan, many times from afar, but this time we went to visit there. It was just about closing, so we…
Osaka castle
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. One of the most important touristic attraction in the city of Osaka is its castle. It was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three people who...
Various things in Lisbon
We returned to Lisbon’s Rossio station from Sintra, Portugal, and then took a taxi to the Parliament building near our home (Airbnb). From here, we walked to Naco, a delicatessen shop that we...
Lufthansa Airlines
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or simply Lufthansa) is the flag carrier of Germany and one of the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size. Lufthansa was founded in 1926 in Berlin (the name was...
Menu of Easter feast
We always plan to go somewhere outside of western Europe for the Easter holidays, because the shops and services are closed in the west. The Orthodox church has got the different date...
The hotel was a traditional house
I stayed in a hotel called Walliserhof in Zermatt in Switzerland. It is the traditional wooden building and I particularly remember the low ceiling. There was a Korean woman who speaks a bit...
wandering in Madrid looking for a restaurant
We got up very early again and went to Madrid in Spain this time. We flew from London Heathrow Airport as usual, but because it was very early, there were not many...
Orecchietta
Orecchietta is a pasta which people in Puglia in south Italy often eat. Orecchio means a ear in Italian and this pasta looks like a small ear. This photo was taken in a...
By train which is just before retirement
Our summer holiday, staying in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy is almost ending. The next day after returning from an overnight trip to Modica and Ragusa, we went to the beach for the last time...
