Essaouira
An astonishing number of boats

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,…

Ourika Valley

A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley

A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…

Calabria

Monasterace

Calabria, in the south of Italy, where we visited this time is a part of “Magna Graecia (great Greece)”. It is an area where the Ancient Greeks settled, so many of…

Merida

Roman theatre here, too

There are many Roman ruins in Merida, a town in western Spain. It is described in our guidebook as ‘a must to see in Extremadura’. Within the town, the highlight is the Roman…

Whitstable

About the restaurant this time

This time, we made a reservation at a French restaurant called Birdies in Whitstable, the seaside town in southeast England. We were attracted to this restaurant facing Harbour Street, the town’s main street…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

The Meijijingu

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. In this photo you can see Meiji shrine, one of the most important and typical tourist destination in Tokyo. It is always full of foreign tourists but...
airlines
Airlines

All Nippon Airways

According to company’s official website, in December 1952, Japan Helicopter & Aeroplane Transports Co., Ltd was established with the goal of restoring regular air transportation services disrupted by WW II. The company started a helicopter...
food
Food

Bread is very good

This is a photo of the garlic bread I ate in a cafe in Hoi An in Vietnam. It was lovely for them to serve it like this on some leaves, which...
hotels
Hotels

the changeable weather in St Ives

We stayed at Poldhu Guest House in St Ives in Cornwall, the south western end of England. Because we decided to come to St Ives quite late, when we tried booking a...
food
Restaurants

Amsterdam after six years

We visited Amsterdam in the Netherlands for the first time in six years. As everyone knows, Dutch people are so big, which I realised strongly last time, and this time, too, at...
food
Food

A Major Source of Rice

We went to a restaurant called Antica Osteria ai Vini in the centre of Novara, a town in Piedmont in Italy. We chose this one because it had a good reputation on...
transports
Transports

Ride a rowing boat

At night in Hoi An, an old town in Vietnam, we were invited to ride a rowing boat, so we tried. The boat was very shallow and the water was very close....