Moret-sur-Loing
A beautiful town of history and art

A beautiful town of history and art

On the second day of our short trip to France, we went to Fontainebleau, where our friends live. Normally, you can go directly from Lyon station in Paris, but due to station construction,...

Paris

That evening’s walk

After enjoying a delicious lunch in the Bercy district of Paris, France, we finally checked into our hotel. This time, we stayed at the Ibis, a chain hotel. As I mentioned before, the…

Paris

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…

England

Second popular clock

The clock in this photo is Eastgate Clock in Chester in England. Both my guide book and online information say that this is the second most photographed clock in Britain after…

Milan

Reminded me of USSR

This is the photo of the area in front of the lifts in Sheraton Hotel at Malpensa, Milan.This reminded me of Kiev Hotel in Moscow.This Sheraton is new, but disastrous.Please read my travel…

Genoa

Genoa at night

 I revisited Genoa, Italy.This time, a local person guided me and we walked around the town at night.Then, we entered a small old pub just in front of an 10 century church, which was…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

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...
shopping
Shopping

Handicrafts in Scanno

Scanno, the town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, is small but they have high quality handicrafts. It is especially famous for the pendant called Presentosa. We also saw some of them...
airlines
Airlines

Traveling by Air: Connecting Worlds

We love exploring new destinations and the journey is often as exciting as the arrival. While we are currently updating our archives on airlines and flight experiences, we look forward to sharing more insights on...
food
Food

A restaurant with only men

In St Moritz in Switzerland, we went to a restaurant called Piz, which was recommended by a staff in our hotel. It was nicely decorated with the fairly tale image of Switzerland, but...
hotels
Hotels

Pleasant hotel

Unfortunately we had to give up continuing our family holiday in Kyushu in Japan. Because of that, we had to stay one night in Fukuoka. We chose “Hotel Active!” which was popular...
food
Restaurants

the restaurant and the shopping street in Whitstable

We booked a restaurant in Whitstable, a port town in southeastern England, called Royal Native Oyster Stores, which is run by a company called Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company. According to their site, it...
food
Food

visiting a winery

We saw and tasted a lot of things in our short holiday in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, but now it was coming to the end. On this day, we went...
transports
Transports

Train journey

In Slovakia, the place I really really wanted to go was a village called Cicmany. The photos I saw in the internet were so attractive and ...