Our main purpose, Oban
On this tour to the Scottish Highlands, our main purpose was to visit the port town of Oban. This place is said to be the “Seafood Capital of Scotland.” When we came here…
Highlands
Revisited the Highlands
The day after we returned to Glasgow from Barra Island in the Hebrides of Scotland, we went on a one-day tour of the Highlands. This is a tour run by a travel company…
Airport and the flight on the way back
It’s almost time to say goodbye to Barra Island in the Hebrides, Scotland, where we spent the night. We took a bus to the airport from the Castlebay bus stop. The flight was…
The Prado Museum
In Madrid in Spain, we visited the famous Prado Museum. I counted and found that the last time I visited there was 35 years ago. It was the first time for my…
Summer holiday in Canada
We spent our summer holiday in Canada this year. My husband had always wanted to visit this country, because his favourite comic which he had read when he was a child was…
Palace with smoke graffiti and a Japanese tea room
On the last day of our short trip to the Tuscany region of Italy, we toured the old town of Certaldo, where we were staying. When we went to the cable car station,…
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...
Selling by weight
In Volterra in Tuscany in Italy, we found one accessory shop which reproduce the ancient designs of Etruscans. The shop is called Fabula Etrusca and it is a cooperative of 5...
Air France
Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France (north of Paris). The airline’s global hub is at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport. According to the...
Restaurant called Fish Market
I found another excellent restaurant in Milan and want to tell you about it.The name is Mercato del Pesce (Fish Market) and they sell actual seafood outside the restaurant area.It is...
Thanks to our ‘angel’
We spent a whole month in February this year with my elderly mother in Japan. On this day, the whole family (mum, my sister and her husband and us) was supposed to travel...
the restaurant with the good reputation
On our first night in Gdansk in Poland, we went to a restaurant called Gdanski Bowke. It was by the river and had a good reputation on the internet. The table to...
the tuna bowl and sightseeing boat in Misaki
After enjoying Umanose Domon on the Jogashima Island in Miura City in Japan, we walked to Jogashima Lighthouse. There was a path above Umanose Domon and the view from there was picturesque,...
Vortex of excitement
At Glasgow Airport in Scotland, we went to the Logan Air boarding gate while looking sideways at people who were drinking alcohol early in the morning. The boarding gate for the flight to...
