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…
Paris
The problem in Paris this time
Almost every trip to Paris, France, presents some kind of problem. Trains are convenient for travelling from Milan to Paris. However, in early May, the Gare de Lyon, the Paris train station, was…
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant
For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my…
Summer capital
The next place we went in India was Shimla. This town is about 2000 metres above sea level and the climate is mild in summer, so in 1864 then British rulers decided…
Menu of Easter feast
We always plan to go somewhere outside of western Europe for the Easter holidays, because the shops and services are closed in the west. The Orthodox church has got the different date…
Cathedral and the bookshop
Our stay in Oporto, Portugal will continue. In the morning of the next day, we decided to visit the cathedral in the neighbourhood of Airbnb where we were staying. The cathedral was the…
Moscow-USSR-2
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we started our stay, they gave us our group itinerary, which included our free days to do whatever we wanted. But we were allowed to move around only...
Accessory Shop and Pintxos Shop in Alghero
On the first day of our stay in Alghero in Sardinia in Italy, we went out for a walk in the evening. We walked from the old town to the seaside...
Portuguese people like cakes
The timing was not very good for eating when we arrived in Coimbra in Portugal.The hotel receptionist told us “No, nothing is open at this time, excepet that one”.So we went in...
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,...
Eat Before Visiting the Palace of Venaria
We visited the Palace of Venaria in Piedmont in Italy as a day trip from Milan. It is located close to Turin and it is the palace for the House of Savoy,...
Moravian cuisine and fireworks
We went to Moravia region in Czech Republic around the time of Spring Bank Holiday in late May. The capital city, Prague is in Bohemia region and Moravia is the eastern...
the lake of Karakul, the most beautiful in the world
I liked Kashgar very much, the town in the western part of Xinjiang in China and wanted to stay there longer, but we had already stayed one night more than our original...
