Revisiting Nardò
We had visited Nardò, in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, on a previous trip to the area. It was a charming town, but I felt I hadn’t really explored it thoroughly, so…
Apulia
Ballet in Piazza del Duomo
During our summer holiday in Lecce—a historic town in the Apulia region of Southern Italy—we spent an evening watching a ballet performance at an open-air theatre set up in the Piazza del Duomo….
Because a wooden one would be too heavy
Continuing our tour of churches in Lecce, in the Puglia region of Southern Italy. After the Duomo, we visited the Church of Santa Chiara, which dates back to the 15th century. I was…
Dinner in a Village with Thatched Houses
In the evening of the day that we enjoyed in Dartmoor, in the southwest of England, we had dinner in a village called North Bovey. Widecombe, the village we went to…
Madness of sea breams
We took a sight seeing boat which started just next to our hotel in Awa Kominato in Chiba, Japan. We had not done our homework about the tour beforehand, so I was…
Chekhov’s dacha
We took a boat to get to a small town called Gurzuf from Yalta. Here there is the Chekhov’s dacha and it is a museum now. It is a small but…
Eat Italian food in Tokyo
This is my friend, Bangly's posting. Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of...
beads of Murano
Every time we go to Murano in Venice, we end up buying some glass products. Not only jewelleries, but one time we stretched our budget to buy a colourful vase. When I...
Traveling by Air: Connecting Worlds
We love exploring new destinations and the journey is often as exciting as the arrival. While we are currently updating our archives on airlines and flight experiences, we look forward to sharing more insights on...
Sake and tofu meal
During our temporary return to Japan, two friends from my university days made reservations for a tour and a meal at Ozawa Sake Brewery in Okutama, Tokyo. “The sake brewery tour starts at...
the hotel on the island
The hotel we stayed on the island of Isla Grande in Colombia was the Hotel San Pedro de Majagua. Apparently it used to be a house of a French painter. If I...
In the UK, fish and chips
In Edinburgh, Scotland, I was already starving when we checked into our hotel. As usual, my husband searched for a place nearby where we could eat something nice, and found a fish and...
Potato sausage
I continue talking about German foods.This one is 'potato sausage' I ate in a town called Herrstein.The very slim waitress, whom I cannot imagine she eats this kind of heavy foods, said 'It...
fly to Italy during the pandemic
At the end of August this year, we were originally planning to go to Japan. But Japan has been virtually adopting a national isolation, so our flight was cancelled. Instead, we decided...
