Finish our holiday at the Venetian Fortress
After enjoying lunch in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, we decided to explore the area. Since our return flight was late that day, we still had time. After considering the museum and the beach, we…
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Dining in Heraklion
Well, our summer holiday in Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, has finally come to an end. After checking out of our Airbnb, we took a taxi to Heraklion, where the airport is…
About the 2,400-year-old tree and others
Next up on our tour of the inland eastern Crete, Greece, was lunch. Expectations were high after the excellent lunch on our last tour, but this time was a disappointment. We were asked…
Seafood at Topsham
We went to Topsham to eat seafood from Exeter, south west England. The restaurant is called The Galley, which was recommended in a website. It was a small restaurant with interesting chairs…
In Chacao
The place we arrived at by ferry in Chiloe Island, Chile, was a small town called Chacao. Our tour leader suggested walking along the esplanade by the sea first, saying “they spent…
Georgia is the Second Christian Country in the World
On the second day in Georgia, the country in Caucasus, we had an excursion to Mtskheta. Mtskheta is a town located about 25km north of the capital city, Tbilisi, and the…
Meditate in a Zen garden
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in Kansai area I had the opportunity to visit the temple Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, which has one of the most important Zen gardens in...
meeting Sani people in Shilin
As of April 2020, the COVID-19 is raging all over the world and we cannot even go out of our house, let alone travel. Therefore I decided to talk about my old travels. These happened...
Cathay Pacific Airways
Initially based in Shanghai, the two men eventually moved to Hong Kong and established the airline.
A fine evening in Montepulciano
I did not get tired of walking in this pretty town of Montepulciano, Tuscany, but it is getting dark and had to find a dinner place. We really needed a light supper, but...
A Hotel with Goth Atmosphere
We stayed in Trinity Capital Hotel in Dublin. I chose this hotel only because it was located in the centre, easy to get to the gathering place for the tour we joined next...
Eat in an old house
We went to Rochester in Kent, England without doing any homework, so at the lunch time, we popped in the tourist office so that we can get some recommendation of restaurants....
the town I want to visit again
During our holiday in the south of Sicily in Italy, we visited Modica after Scicli. This is another town of ‘Late Baroque Towns of Val di Noto’, the Unesco World Heritage...
Travel by Train
The hotel staff member in Roccella Jonica in southern Italy said “This area is forgotten. You will see that if you see the train around here”. We took that train and...
