Tangier
Accompanied by a local guide

Accompanied by a local guide

After Assilah in northern Morocco, our next stop was Tangier. We stayed overnight here. First, we visited the Caves of Hercules, which we had no interest in, and the nearby lighthouse (where the...

Today’s lunch and the mystery of the plate
Assilah

Today’s lunch and the mystery of the plate

After exploring medina of Assilah, a coastal town in Morocco, it was time for lunch. We went to the restaurant recommended by our driver, Youssuf. The restaurant, called Dar Al Maghrebia, is located…

Quiet White Maze
Assilah

Quiet White Maze

On our second day in Morocco, we left Rabat and headed north along the Atlantic coast to Assilah. When we entered the motorway, we passed through the toll booth using a system similar…

The pub housed in a boat
Rabat

The pub housed in a boat

After checking into our riad in Rabat, Morocco, we took a nap. That was because we’d been up at 3 AM that day. Waking up, we headed outside. The friendly riad staff recommended…

ride on the San Luca Express in Bologna
Emilia Romagna

Ride on the San Luca Express in Bologna

In Bologna in Italy where we went to eat delicious Tagliatelle alla Bolognese, when we came into the main square, Piazza Maggiore, we noticed the Trenino (tourist bus in the shape of…

Names of Italian people
Milan

Names of Italian people

The area around the Duomo is the centre of the city and there are always a lot of people here. I wonder if I call ‘Marco!’, how many people would turn around. There…

Climb Up Mount Teide
Tenerife

Climb Up Mount Teide

Mount Teide in Tenerife in Spain is a volcano with a height of 3,718 metres, which is the highest mountain in the country. It is listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site….

miranda-friends
Eat Italian food in Tokyo
Miranda Friends

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...
shopping
Lapis lazuli
Shopping

Lapis lazuli

One of the things I was looking forward to in this South America tour was ‘stones’. Chile is the one of the major sources of Lapis Lazuli. This stone has an ultramarine...
airlines
Air India
Airlines

Air India

Air India is India’s national flag carrier. Although air transport was born in India on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquet, flying a Humber bi-plane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles...
food
Visiting Yahiko Shrine, after eating manju
Food

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...
hotels
Lovely hotel and town walk
Hotels

Lovely hotel and town walk

Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located...
food
Enjoyable and good foods
Restaurants

Enjoyable and good foods

There is a lovely restaurant in the aquarium called Oceanografico in Valencia in Spain. The name of the restaurant is Submarino. The speciality here is the setting. The restaurant space is surrounded...
food
Ice cream for breakfast?
Food

Ice cream for breakfast?

In the morning in Syracuse in the southeastern part of Sicily, Italy, we went out for an Italian breakfast, croissants and cappuccino. The Airbnb where we stayed was in the new town,...
transports
The train listed as a World Heritage
Transports

The train listed as a World Heritage

Bernina Express is the train listed as a World Heritage, starting from Tirano in Italy to Chur in Switzerland.According to the brochure, it runs along 122 kilometres of track, passing through 55 tunnels...