Feeling déjà vu in Santa Margherita Ligure
We had a short trip to Liguria in Northern Italy for the first time in a while. This time, our destination was Santa Margherita Ligure, a place we’d never been to before. After…
Liguria
In Novara, where we went to see the ballet
Novara, located in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, is not well known, but it has many attractions, including a tall domed church and medieval buildings. And for a provincial city, it’s home…
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…
A big torch festival in a small village
On the next day we visited a small village called Fara Filiorum Petri which was about 30 minutes drive to the south inland from the seaside Pescara where we stayed in Abruzzo…
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in Spain is very famous. Maybe because I saw the photo many times, I was not so surprised or impressed to see the real one for the…
Old British Consulate
There are many western style houses left in Hakodate in Hokkaido, Japan. Among them, we went in to Old British Consulate. The current building was built in 1913 after others were burned…
In Moscow 1980
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we landed at the Moscow airport in April 1980, at the passport control we we found the officials wearing uniforms, with no smiles or no expressions. They looked...
Pendant of the Byzantine Era
This is the pendant I bought in Lefkara village in Cyprus. This village is famous for its lace making, but their silverwork has got a long history, too. Once upon a time,...
Qantas Airlines
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest domestic and international airline. Registered originally as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS), Qantas is widely regarded as...
About the wine here
Melnik, a village in the southwest of Bulgaria, has long been known as a wine-producing region. Many of the traditional houses in the village have wine cellars, and Hotel Slavova Krepost, where we...
Wonderful ryokan in Hakone
This is the view from the balcony of our room in a ryokan(Japanese style hotel) called Hanaougi in Goura in Hakone.This balcony has got a open air hot spring bath, which was excellent!...
Dinner on the day
It’s dinner time in Zafra, a town in western Spain. The restaurant at Hotel Plaza Grande, where we were staying, had been praised on the internet, so we went to see it, but...
Cevapi, a very nice and cheap dish
The best food I had in Bosnia and Herzegovina was this one in the photo, called Cevapi.It seemed their national food.There were 5 small sausages, similar to Adana Kebab in a pita...
Something we learned in Como (part 1)
On this Easter Sunday when we were staying in northern Italy, we had no plans at all, but wanted to go somewhere that we could have a good meal nearby, and in the...
