This lunch was worth the wait
On our tour of eastern Crete, Greece, we were finally taken to a restaurant. Lunch was included in the tour. We were starving. We stopped at a restaurant in a neighbourhood where construction…
Crete
Rich monastery and the painful beach
On our tour of eastern Crete, Greece, we finally arrived at Toplou Monastery, one of our destinations. We paid €5 to enter, but there was no explanation beyond the pamphlet’s description that it…
Wild eastern Crete
Astra Tours offers group tours from Agios Nikolaos, a town in eastern Crete, Greece. We often choose these tours because we don’t rent a car when we travel. On this day, we took…
White Town of Ostuni in Puglia
Ostuni has got a wow effect, when you see the town on top of a hill surrounded by olive trees in Puglia, south Italy.This town is in white! The day I visited there,…
Purpose of Russian Tourists
There were two guides on our tour bus in Cyprus, one was for English speakers and the other for Russian and they gave us information alternately. When we got off the bus,…
The restaurant with a Japanese sign
We had our last diner in Venice in this restaurant with a Japanese sign, saying ‘Open’. This was recommended by my Gondolier, Mario. Some Japanese tourists may hesitate to enter because of this…
Excursion to Nara
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in Osaka we decided to go to Nara for one day. Nara was the first capital of Japan. It took us almost one hour...
Accessory Shop and Pintxos Shop in Alghero
On the first day of our stay in Alghero in Sardinia in Italy, we went out for a walk in the evening. We walked from the old town to the seaside...
Cathay Pacific Airways
Initially based in Shanghai, the two men eventually moved to Hong Kong and established the airline.
Source of happiness
Emilia Romagna region of Italy is famous for its good foods.This time when I went to visit Torrechiara castle, I went to this restaurant called Al Mulino and enjoyed their foods very much.The...
The hotel like a manor house
When we went to see Hadrian’s Wall, we stayed one night at Slaley Hall in Northumberland. It is in the middle of nowhere. The house used to be a manor house of Edwardian...
The restaurant we booked beforehand
The first dinner we had in Krakow in Poland was at a restaurant where my friend had booked from abroad, because it has got a reputation as the most popular restaurants in the...
meat dish in Solferino
I saw a weird photo of a wall with many skulls on a website and found out that it was in a town called Solferino which is not too far from Milan...
Journey by boat against the current of Danube
From Bratislava in Slovakia we took a boat to get to Devin Castle. We went against the current of Danube, so it was a ...
