Dining at the monastery
My husband told me he’d made a reservation at a restaurant inside the monastery, so I was very curious to see what kind of simple food I’d be served. The Torba Monastery is…
Piedmont
The spectacular St. Peter’s Church
The reason we decided to go to Pizzighettone in Lombardy, Italy, on this day was because we had seen a photo of this extravagant church, St. Peter’s Church. I had never seen a…
To Pizzighettone
We visited Pizzighettone in Lombardy, Italy, to enjoy the autumn scenery before the days got too short. It’s an old town about 66 kilometres southeast of Milan, just over an hour’s drive from…
Seeking Schweinshaxe
As soon as we arrived in Stuttgart, Germany, we got off the train and headed to a restaurant called Paulaner am alten Postplatz. When we got there, it was a wooden restaurant that…
Unfortunately it rained
On the second day of our visit to Edinburgh, unfortunately, it rained. We had a short walk around the city where they were preparing the Christmas market. Our friends told us that the…
To Zakynthos Island
Towards end of September when the weather was turning chilly in the UK, we went to Zakynthos Island in Greece. We flew from Heathrow to the south and from around south Italy,…
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...
Shopping at the market
On the first day we started ‘living’ in Syracuse, a town in the south eastern part of Sicily in Italy, we went shopping at the wet market. Crossing the bridge from the new...
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...
Conger special restaurant
A friend of ours took us to a restaurant in Nihonbashi in Tokyo called “Tamai” which is specialised in conger eel dishes. I had never eaten conger eel apart from the one...
Stay overnight in a monastery
I stayed in a hotel which was a monastery in Italy, but this time we stayed in a monastery itself, St.Joakim Osogovski in Macedonia.I was prepared myself for a very simple basic room...
Italian in Weymouth
After having a good time in Dorset, in the south of England, we looked for a restaurant for dinner. The pub in the Isle of Portland was full, so we came...
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...
A bad start of our excursion to Procida
While spending our summer holiday on the island of Ischia in southern Italy, we took a day trip to the nearby island of Procida. On the main street of Forio where we were...
