Quiet White Maze
On our second day in Morocco, we left Rabat and headed north along the Atlantic coast to Assilah. When we entered the motorway, we passed through the toll booth using a system similar…
Assilah
The pub housed in a boat
After checking into our riad in Rabat, Morocco, we took a nap. That was because we’d been up at 3 AM that day. Waking up, we headed outside. The friendly riad staff recommended…
Our accommodations were riad
On this trip to Morocco, we stayed at a riad almost every night. The same goes for our first night in Morocco in Rabat. We arrived at Riad Gyo, located just around the…
Streets of jewellery shops
The old part of Skopje, the capital city of Macedonia is very similar to the Turkish quarter of Sarajevo. It is like middle eastern bazaar, the town is divided according what the shop sells….
Golden Storehouse
Just to refuge from the rain we went into a gold leaf craft shop called Hakuza in Kanazawa, Japan. Here they have a golden storehouse in their courtyard. They sell a lot of…
Lake Ohrid
One of the highlights of this Ancient Macedonia tour we joined was this Lake Ohrid. It is listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO and the best summer resort in Macedonia. The town was…
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...
A lovely embroidery shop whose name I forgot
As I mentioned before, the folk dance costumes we saw in Dubrovnik in Croatia were really cute. So I searched online and went to a local shop that specialises in embroidery such as...
Eastern China Airlines
According to company’s official website, China Eastern Air Holding Company, headquartered in Shanghai, is one of the three largest major air transport companies in China. The company (formerly China Eastern Airlines established in 1988), was...
Delicious food that looks bad for you
I continue talking about our journey in Spain during the year-end and New Year holidays. The next day, we left Extremadura and went to Salamanca by bus. Salamanca is a university town described...
Small room and the good supper
This time in Paris, France, we stayed at a three-star hotel called Color Design Hotel. It bothered me a little that the receptionist was being so nice only to my husband, but oh...
‘Edelweiss’
On the second day in Dresden in Germany, we had dinner in a restaurant called ‘Edelweiss’ in Neumarkt square, whose theme was Switzerland. The waiters and waitresses were wearing pretty costumes here,...
local dishes in Kumamoto
On the evening of the day that we did excursion to the outskirts of Kumamoto City in Kyushu in Japan, we went to a Japanese-style bar/restaurant called “Goen” which was recommended by the...
to Kumamoto
After spending one night in Fukuoka in Kyushu in Japan, we headed for Kumamoto. It was a short holiday for a friend of us, too and we wanted to go there with...
