Paris
Regional cuisine of the Aveyron

Regional cuisine of the Aveyron

The first restaurant we went to in the Bercy district of Paris, France, where we stayed, was L’Auberge Aveyronnaise. My husband found and booked this restaurant online before the trip. It serves cuisine...

Paris

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…

Lisbon

Redeveloped area in pastel colour

The next day, we returned to the capital Lisbon from Oporto in northern Portugal. Our stay in Portugal for more than two weeks was towards the end. I said goodbye to the city…

Vietnam

Photo business

After lunch in Hoi An in Vietnam, there was a short free time, so we went down to the river. There, some picture-perfect middle aged women with a conic hat and a…

Japan

Tanjo-ji

Just next to our hotel in Awa Kominato in Chiba prefecture in Japan, there was a temple called Tanjo-ji, meaning a birth temple. It is the temple to commemorate the birth of…

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Miranda Friends

Moscow-USSR-4

This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. There were some small things that impressed me in Moscow, because things were different from the west: One of these was that the newspapers were basically free and a...
food
Food

Taste of coconut

We had our last dinner in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,  in our tour leader’s favourite restaurant. It was a bit of a walk from Ipanema beach and I think it was called...
hotels
Hotels

4:30am

The tour in Ireland was organised by the same company as the one we joined last year in Scotland. They arrange the accommodation by asking customers their preference (ie.budget) and this time in...
food
Restaurants

A posh restaurant at first sight

On the second evening in Santiago in Chile, we went to a restaurant called Liguria which was recommended by our tour leader. According to him, many of the expats living in Santiago...
transports
Hotels

To Tenerife

We spent our holiday over Christmas and New Year in Tenerife, one of the Canary islands in Spain. Tenerife is a popular destination for British, German and northern European people seeking the...