Chefchaouen
Dinner that night

Dinner that night

On the day we stayed in Chefchaouen, the blue city of Morocco, we missed lunch, so we looked for a place to eat dinner. Initially, despite our previous experience, we tried a restaurant...

Chefchaouen

Riad was actually quite luxurious

Chefchaouen, the blue city of Morocco, doesn’t have any particular sights to see; it’s a place to enjoy the town itself, so many tours seem to just visit briefly without staying overnight. However,…

Chefchaouen

Enjoying the scenery I wanted to see

Our next destination for our year-end trip to Morocco is the blue city, Chefchaouen. This is precisely why I decided to take this trip. There are several destinations I’ve always wanted to visit,…

Tétouan

Andalusian-style white town

During our year-end trip to Morocco, after leaving Tangier, we headed to Tétouan. Our car was stopped by the police twice along the way. Apparently, they randomly stop cars and check them all…

Chiba

The fortune slip at a temple in Kashiwa

We went to Koryuzan Fusebenten Tokaiji temple in Kashiwa in Chiba prefecture for Hatsumode (a Japanese tradition, the first visit of the year to a temple or a shrine during the New…

Finland

Visiting Sami people

  Visiting Sami people’s house through travel agent was one of the highlights of our trip to Finland 2006. They showed us their colourful costumes and then let us wear their reindeer fur…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

‘Read’ a pasta dish

Talking with a Japanese friend of mine, Koji, who is a wine and food expert, I learned that there is an Italian dish called Napolitan in Japan, which I did not know that existed.
shopping
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...
airlines
Airlines

Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered at Atatūrk Airport in Istanbul. According to company’’s official website, on 20th may 1933, the “State Airlines Administration” operating under the supervision of the...
food
Food

Only bread?

I ate Fondue in Zermatt in Switzerland.I thought I had eaten Fondue before somewhere, but it was not true.Because I did not expect that you put only bread in the melted cheese.The cheese...
hotels
Hotels

a room with the view

In Niigata City in Japan, we stayed in Hotel Nikko Niigata. It is in Toki Messe where we could walk from the Niigata Port after arriving from Sado Island. While we were...
food
Restaurants

great lunch, away from our group

When we were given free time during our Moscow city tour in Russia, we decided not to rejoin them, and went to a restaurant ourselves. The restaurant is called Cafe Pushkin. When...
food
Food

Finnish Dish

We asked the hotel receptionist to recommend some Finnish restaurants in Helsinki, as it was just about lunch time when we arrived there. She said “Aino is good. They are not so...
transports
Transports

Blue road

Here in London, you mayhave noticed blue roads recently.I did not know until one of my Facebook friends told me, but this is a special road for cyclists.The purpose is to encourage...