Paris
That evening’s walk

That evening’s walk

After enjoying a delicious lunch in the Bercy district of Paris, France, we finally checked into our hotel. This time, we stayed at the Ibis, a chain hotel. As I mentioned before, the...

Paris

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…

Warsaw

Current Poland and ‘UkiUki’ restaurant

My husband asked Mariusz, our guide who took us around for the Communism Tour, about the current situation in Poland. So he stopped the minibus on a bridge and started chatting. According…

Apulia

A town with small old men

 The last night of my short trip to south Italy was spent in Altamura. When we arrived there, it was already dark, but quite many people were in the main street with a lot…

Ravenna

The oldest building in Ravenna

This ceiling is in Baptistry of Neon, the oldest building in Ravenna in Italy.This is the picture of Christ being baptised by John the Baptist in Jordan River (it says Jordan).It is…

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Miranda Friends

Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. A lot of people in Italy know the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his works, for example “the wave” or “36 views of mount Fuji”. They are on...
food
Food

sherry in Jerez

Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain is famous for its sherry. Apparently, the word ‘sherry’ came from this town’s name. While the Arabs dominated this area, they called this town Sherish...
hotels
Hotels

Hotel of poets

We stayed one night in a town called Lugo in Emilia Romagna in Italy. We were surprised to know that the hotel we stayed called Ala D’Oro had a long history. It...
food
Food

We found a cheap restaurant

We returned to Forio, where we were staying, from the Aragonese Castle, the most popular tourist spot on the island of Ischia in southern Italy, for lunch. I had thought from lunch the...
food
Food

Winery

The last destination of the tour, which took us around Cyprus was the small winery. It was a cottage industry which sells only 20,000 bottles a year. After looking around the factory,...
transports
Transports

Metro, tragedy and hospital

After taking a peek at the El Corte Inglés department store in Lisbon, Portugal, we decided to take the metro from there. This was our first time on the Lisbon metro. There was...