Marrakesh
And so the journey comes to an end

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...

An astonishing number of boats
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…

Argan oil and goats
Essaouira

Argan oil and goats

In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…

Local restaurant in Otranto
Italy

Local restaurant in Otranto

In the second evening in Otranto, southern Italy, we went to a restaurant with genuine local atomosphere.Again, the mixed starter was special, like Carpaccio of swordfish and some sort of octopus fritters.I…

A conscientious tour company
London

A conscientious tour company

 We joined a tour run by a company called Rabbie’s for this England & Wales holiday. This is a Scottish company based in Edinburgh. They started organising tours in Scotland and…

Morning in fog
Portugal

Morning in fog

When we got up in the morning, Monsanto village in Portugal was in thick fog. We had a short walk before breakfast. It was really mysterious atmosphere. We could not see a…

miranda-friends
Osaka castle
Miranda Friends

Osaka castle

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. One of the most important touristic attraction in the city of Osaka is its castle. It was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three people who...
shopping
the changeable weather in St Ives
Hotels

the changeable weather in St Ives

We stayed at Poldhu Guest House in St Ives in Cornwall, the south western end of England. Because we decided to come to St Ives quite late, when we tried booking a...
airlines
Finnair
Airlines

Finnair

Finnair Plc is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland with its headquarters in Vantaa and its main hub at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. According to company’s official web site, Finnair is one of world’s oldest...
food
The market which sells snails
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...
hotels
The hotel which used to be a powder magazine
Hotels

The hotel which used to be a powder magazine

The old town of Monopoli, south Italy is surrounded by the wall with a lot of cannons on top of it.I stayed a hotel just inside the wall called Hotel Don Ferrante.It opened...
food
Another lukewarm meat
Restaurants

Another lukewarm meat

In Ecija, a town in the Andalusian region of Spain, after visiting the museum, we went to the restaurant Casa Machin that we wanted to go to. The restaurant was housed in an...
transports
Vortex of excitement
Transports

Vortex of excitement

At Glasgow Airport in Scotland, we went to the Logan Air boarding gate while looking sideways at people who were drinking alcohol early in the morning. The boarding gate for the flight to...