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…
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…
A modest New Year’s Eve
We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…
The town of Tampere
We came back to Tampere where we started this journey. There are a lot of chimneys there and very severe sort of image there. But on the other hand, there were also many…
Visiting Yahiko Shrine, after eating manju
We ate Omokaru-manju, Japanese style bun, before going into Yahiko Shrine in Niigata, because my friend recommended this manju from Kameya shop.There were three tastes, soya sauce, brown sugar and sesame.I wanted to try…
Time it takes to get a fortune slip
On the third day of our Taiwan holiday, we met up with a friend from Tokyo and her Taiwanese friends. We all went to Sanxia, a town outside of Taipei. The highlight here is…
Japanese whisky
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. I like whisky very much. Since I was a boy I have appreciated European whiskies, especially Irish and Scottish. Because I knew that Japan produces good whiskies,...
Ryokan with Sunset and Murakami Kibori Tsuishu
We stayed at the seaside Ryokan (a Japanese style hotel) called ‘Taikanso Senami no Yu’ in Murakami in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan. According to the information on the internet, the hot spring...
American Airlines
On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day,...
Seafood soup
In the pretty village of Verezzi in Luguria, Italy, I went to a restaurant called A Topia, which was recommended by a shop owner who sells pretty small articles.It was a homely restaurant,...
A Hotel with Goth Atmosphere
We stayed in Trinity Capital Hotel in Dublin. I chose this hotel only because it was located in the centre, easy to get to the gathering place for the tour we joined next...
after seeing the Etruscan Arch, lunch time
We walked from Piazza IV Novembre towards Etruscan Arch in Perugia in Umbria, Italy. Walking west from the Cathedral of San Lorenzo into Via Battisti, we came out to the point where...
the eel in Alghero
This day in Alghero, a town in the northwestern part of Sardinia, Italy, was a normal day. The only event was a lunch break between work, going to a market in...
Train journey
In Slovakia, the place I really really wanted to go was a village called Cicmany. The photos I saw in the internet were so attractive and ...
