Assilah
Quiet White Maze

Quiet White Maze

On our second day in Morocco, we left Rabat and headed north along the Atlantic coast to Assilah. When we entered the motorway, we passed through the toll booth using a system similar...

Rabat

The pub housed in a boat

After checking into our riad in Rabat, Morocco, we took a nap. That was because we’d been up at 3 AM that day. Waking up, we headed outside. The friendly riad staff recommended…

Rabat

Our accommodations were riad

On this trip to Morocco, we stayed at a riad almost every night. The same goes for our first night in Morocco in Rabat. We arrived at Riad Gyo, located just around the…

Rabat

The kasbah and the lunch

Our next stop in Rabat, Morocco, was Oudaya Kasbah. A kasbah is a former fortress with a small, inhabited town inside. This kasbah apparently dates back to the 12th century, after which people…

Dubrovnik

To Dubrovnik

We got up early in the morning for the first time in a while and headed to the airport by Uber. This time the destination is Dubrovnik, Croatia. I was surprised that Uber…

Turkey

Huge stadium

Afrodisias in Turkey an ancient city which was founded first century BC and there was a temple for Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty. But most striking thing here is the huge stadium. I…

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

Talked with a woman at an amber stall

At one end of the market, Kalnciems Fair which was held outside of old town of Riga, there was a stall where a woman was selling the rough stone of...
airlines
Airlines

Cathay Pacific Airways

Initially based in Shanghai, the two men eventually moved to Hong Kong and established the airline.
food
Food

The Best Bagel Shop in the Town

On the day we walked around Shoreditch in East London, one of my friends said “We came all the way here, we should go and get Bagels”. According to her, the bagels...
hotels
Hotels

Homely hotel

The German gem stone town called Idar-Oberstein is divided into two areas, Idar and Oberstein. Our hotel was in Oberstein side near the railway station. The name is City Hotel Garni. It seemed...
food
Restaurants

At the restaurant in Castelfiorentino

In Castelfiorentino, a town in the Tuscany region of Italy, my husband made a reservation at a restaurant called Il Gusto e il Tatto by mistake. He had intended to make a reservation...
food
Food

The market which sells snails

This is a box of snails I saw in Catania, the second biggest city in Sicily, south Italy. They are all alive and wiggle continuously. In this market, mainly sea-foods were sold, but...
transports
Transports

Motorboat

It was a very fine day the next day and we spent all day in Paphos in Cyprus without going anywhere. When we were walking along the harbour area, we found a...