Marrakesh
Walking through the hustle and bustle of the souk

Walking through the hustle and bustle of the souk

After leaving the Bahia Palace on our walking tour in Marrakesh, Morocco, we walked through the bustling souk for a while. According to our guide, Youssuf, the souk used to be clearly divided...

Marrakesh

The Bahia Palace

Our next stop on our guided walking tour in Marrakesh, Morocco, was the Bahia Palace. We paid 100 dirhams (about 9 euros) per person to enter. Although it’s a magnificent mansion built in…

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Go up to the top of minaret

In Mostar, the town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is a unusual mosque which allowed us to go up to the minaret. Usually mosques are very strict and we often have to…

Boston

Unlucky day

On the next day after a day full of sightseeing in Boston, USA, it was raining. It rained all day. Apparently for local people it was a welcome rain, though. There were…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

‘Read’ a pasta dish

Talking with a Japanese friend of mine, Koji, who is a wine and food expert, I learned that there is an Italian dish called Napolitan in Japan, which I did not know that existed.
shopping
Shopping

Moldavite

I continue talking about my second visit to Prague after 19 years. Last time I noticed only a few suvenir shops, mainly selling glassware or wood craft things, but this time I...
airlines
Airlines

Air France

Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France (north of Paris). The airline’s global hub is at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport. According to the...
food
Food

Revisiting the cake shop in Sintra

We came down into the town from the Pena Palace on the outskirts of Sintra, Portugal. After all, we were hungry, so we didn’t look for anything and went straight to a bakery...
hotels
Hotels

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,...
food
Restaurants

Wonderful restaurant

We went to a wonderful restaurant in Italy. It is called Camp di Cent Pertigh and situated outside of the town called Carate Brianza which is about 30 km north of Milan....
food
Food

Ice Wine and Quebecoise cuisine

The next place we went during our food tour on Ile d’Orlean, the island in the suburbs of Quebec City in Canada was a winery. We had leaned that Canada produces...
transports
Transports

to Zaragoza in Spain

We got up early again and this time headed for Zaragoza in Spain. First we flew to Madrid. Because of the fog in Heathrow airport in London, our flight delayed by more...