Gjirokaster
Traditional Coffee Brewing

Traditional Coffee Brewing

The last place we visited in Gjirokaster, an old town in Albania, was a shop that demonstrated how to make traditional coffee. A kilim was laid on the ground, and on top of...

Gjirokaster

Ethnographic museum used to be Hoxha’s home

On the second day in Gjirokaster, Albania, we gathered at 8:15 and went to the Ethnographic Museum first. It is very close to the House of Skenduli, a traditional house that we visited…

Gjirokaster

The only shopping we did in this holiday

In Gjirokaster, an old town in Albania, we stayed at a hotel near the bustling city centre, where shops were lined up like a bazaar. The hotel was called Hotel Argjiro. It seems…

Gjirokaster

About the stingy family’s traditional house

We arrived at Gjirokaster, our destination for the day on our Albania tour. Gjirokaster is a World Heritage Site and is known as the “Stone Town.” That is because its rows of traditional…

Crimea

Tatars world

On top of Mt.Ai-Petri was Tatars world, totally different from the lower ground. There were a lot of souvenir shops and restaurants there. The souvenirs include woollen socks, fur waistcoats, slippers…

Budapest

The pleasure boat on Danube

After taking a break at a nice hotel in Budapest, Hungary, we took the metro train to the Danube River, which runs through the town. Or rather, when we were about to go,…

Italy

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…

miranda-friends
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...
shopping
Shopping

a great time at the market in Urumchi

We went to Urumchi by bus from Turpan in China. Again the bus was a clunker and it took about 5 hours. On the way, I saw the scar from the flood...
airlines
Airlines

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...
food
Food

Korean BBQ

Korea is famous for its barbecue.The most impressive thing there was the thickness of the tongue.I usually eat very thin ones..The dipping was somewhat different from the one I am used to, a...
hotels
Hotels

Boulder in the bathroom

The accommodation we stayed in the village, Monsanto in Portugal was Taverna Lusitana. It was a B&B which has got only two rooms, but the room was surprisingly nice. We were prepared...
food
Restaurants

Lovely Lunch in La Laguna

On the last day in La Laguna, the old capital city of Tenerife in Spain, it was a fairly cool day, so we chose to walk in the sunshine, unlike the day...
food
Food

The Beef and Sake in Murakami

We visited Murakami City in the Niigata prefecture with our friends who live in Niigata city. On the day, it was raining hard in Kanto, where we started, and we wanted to take...
transports
Transports

To the Aero Island

We went over to Aero island in Denmark by ferry from Svendborg. It took about 40minutes from Odense to Svendborg by train and from the Svendborg station to the port was about 10minutes’...