Lyon
Travelling by train to Lyon

Travelling by train to Lyon

We travelled by train from Milan, Italy to Lyon, France‘s second largest city. It was our first time there. I’d heard that Lyon is a city of fine cuisine, so I was excited....

Lombardy

This is our only choice in Clusone

We visited Clusone in Northern Italy for my husband’s Tai Chi event. We had a reservation for lunch at a restaurant called Commercio Mas-Ci’. We had actually visited this restaurant in June and…

Crete

Finish our holiday at the Venetian Fortress

After enjoying lunch in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, we decided to explore the area. Since our return flight was late that day, we still had time. After considering the museum and the beach, we…

Crete

Olive oil factory tour

While staying in Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, we also joined a tour to visit inland villages. It was the same Astra Tours tour as the one to Vai Palm Beach a…

Tenerife

Walk in La Orotava

We went to La Orotava by bus, which is a town located a little inland from Puerto de la Cruz, in the north of Tenerife in Spain. It is an elegant town with…

Highlands

On Isle of Skye

During our bus tour around the Highlands of Scotland, the accommodation on that day was in a port town called Portree on Isle of Skye. Skye is the largest island in Scotland, but…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Excursion to Nara

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in Osaka we decided to go to Nara for one day. Nara was the first capital of Japan. It took us almost one hour...
shopping
Hotels

The only shopping we did in this holiday

In Gjirokaster, an old town in Albania, we stayed at a hotel near the bustling city centre, where shops were lined up like a bazaar. The hotel was called Hotel Argjiro. It seems...
airlines
Airlines

JAL Japan Airlines

JAL Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) (Nihon Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha) is an airline headquartered in Shinagawa, in Tokyo, Japan. It is the flag carrier of Japan and its main hubs are Tokyo’s Narita International Airport and...
food
Food

Jewish cooking

I had a Jewish meal for the first time in Krakow, Poland.The restaurant was called Klezmer Hois and I remember it looked like someones house, rather than a public restaurant.I ate stuffed goose...
hotels
Hotels

This never happened before

For our Cyprus holiday, we booked the flight and the hotel through online travel agency. When we arrived at the hotel in Paphos, nobody was at the reception, so we called out...
food
Restaurants

perfect tastes

After walking around in Asakusa with our friend who was born there, we took the bus called “Megurin” run by the ward to get to Yanaka. We went to the pub restaurant...
food
Food

Historical Amazake shop

The main reason why we went to Kanda Shrine in Tokyo was in fact to have some Amazake (sweet beverage made from fermented rice or sake lees). The shop is called Amano-ya...
transports
Transports

On the way back

I was worried that I might not be able to get the seat at window on the way back on the helicopter because more people were there at the airport.By getting on it...