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…
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…
Similar to Tempura
In Piacenza in Italy, we were disappointed to find that the restaurant I had looked up in internet was full up. So we asked two of the passers for their recommendation…
The dog of a shop
This is a dog playing around in the Garibaldi street in Genoa in Italy.Actually this dog belongs to the shop owner near by and because he is letting this dog loose, the police charged…
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant
For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my…
The beautiful town of Akashi
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. On the second day in Osaka, after breakfast, we met a Japanese friend who lives here. His name is Mr. Okazawa and he became our guide. We...
The next day was sunny
[On the second day in Yokohama, Japan, the sun was shining and completely opposite of the bad weather of the previous day. And it was warm, too. If we had planned this trip one day...
The tasty things in Malta
I have already written that seafood, vegetables and wines were very good in Malta, but the thing I must not forget is bread. Usually, I am not very keen on carbohydrate stuff,...
The hotel which used to be a powder magazine
The old town of Monopoli, south Italy is surrounded by the wall with a lot of cannons on top of it.I stayed a hotel just inside the wall called Hotel Don Ferrante.It opened...
Sushi, cruise and coloured carp in Niigata
On the last day of our short trip to Sado and Niigata, Japan, we went out to have a sushi lunch. The restaurant we chose was called ‘Sekai Zushi’ and was taking...
Nothing but potatoes
On the day we had a excursion to Kawagoe in Japan, we only ate potatoes there. Kawagoe is famous for its potatoes. First, we tried baked sweet potato cut in triangle like...
Punting in Canterbury
The name of the river running through Canterbury in the south of England is the River Stour. It is a narrow river like a canal, and on the river they were offering...
