Lombardy
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant

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...

Marrakesh

And so the journey comes to an end

Our year-end trip to Morocco has finally come to an end. By the time we returned to Marrakesh from our excursion to Essaouira, it was already getting dark, and we were caught in traffic that…

Essaouira

An astonishing number of boats

We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…

Japan

Queue to eat big bowl of seafood

The small restaurants in Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo opens at around 4 am and closes at 1 pm.It must have been only for the workers of the market, but now they are for…

Bachkovo Monastery

Gorgeous orthodox church

We went to Bachkovo Monastery by minibus from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The guidebook said it would take 40 minutes, but it didn’t take that long. It was a roadside bus stop where we were…

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Miranda Friends

Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. A lot of people in Italy know the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his works, for example “the wave” or “36 views of mount Fuji”. They are on...
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Airlines

Air China

According to company’s official web site, Air China Limited (“Air China”) and its predecessor, the former Air China, were founded in 1988. According to the “Civil Aviation System Reform Program” which was approved and passed...
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Food

The salmon in Denmark is excellent

This is a photo of smoked salmon I ate as a starter in an old restaurant called Den Gamle Kro in Odense in Denmark. The waiter came to my table with a whole fish and...
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Hotels

Great feast

We stayed overnight at Awa Kominato in Chiba prefecture in Japan with all my family. This is a photo of a part of our dinner in the ryokan (Japanese style hotel) called...
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Restaurants

Disappointing restaurant

It was New Year’s Eve in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. We had made a reservation before going on this trip to this restaurant because we thought there would be only a few restaurants open...
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Food

Watermelon

After enjoying our walk along the promenade and tasting the lovely ice cream in Italy, we headed back to our B&B. On the way, we found this stall selling only watermelon....
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Restaurants

another disaster in Paris

We were planning to see a ballet and an opera in Paris as well as visiting our friends in Fontainebleau in France this time. But all of them were cancelled. That is...