Essaouira

An astonishing number of boats

We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…

Essaouira

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…

Marrakesh

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,…

Tenerife

Christmas Lunch and La Laguna at Night

We spent Christmas day in La Laguna, the ancient capital city in Tenerife in Spain. Because we thought it would be difficult to find a restaurant on Christmas day, we had booked…

Crimea

Building boom

In the southen part of Crimea on the sea, they were building high rise apartments one after another, which was damaging the view. They are for Ukrainian or Russian rich people’s…

England

Henley on Thames in a cold day

In a very cold day, we visited Henley-on-Thames, a very English town on the Thames river. Here they have a famous regatta in summer and it has got a wealthy atmosphere. In the…

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Miranda Friends

Eat Italian food in Tokyo

This is my friend, Bangly's posting. Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of...
shopping
Shopping

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...
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Airlines

American Airlines

On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day,...
food
Food

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...
hotels
Hotels

To Freiburg

From Heidelberg to Friburg in Germany, it took less than 2 hours by train, changing once at Manheim.Friburg is a nice lively town with ditches with clean looking water all over the town....
food
Restaurants

Waited more than one hour

We went to a restaurant called “Nishiki” in Izu Atagawa, which was listed in my friend’s guide book. The book said ” Be careful, there is another restaurant with the similar name”....
food
Food

Fascinating port wine

During our stay in Oporto, a town in northern Portugal, we went for a walk after it got dark a few times. Mostly to the bustling areas along the Douro River. The famous...
transports
Hotels

revisit Buenos Aires

We decided to spend our Easter Holiday in Buenos Aires in Argentina. We have been there before, about two years ago, but that was a part of the grand tour visiting three...