Lombardy
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant

The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant

For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my...

Marrakesh

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…

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…

Spain

View from Baeza cathedral

Baeza is about 6-7 kilometres from Ubeda and it is listed in the World Heritage, too. Again it is a small quiet town, but the cathedral was well organised for tourists. Once you…

Italy

Medieval festival

It was the first weekend of June when we went to Cortona in Tuscany in Italy. Every year, they have Medieval Festival around this time here. There were a lot of…

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

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...
airlines
Airlines

Qantas Airlines

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest domestic and international airline. Registered originally as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS), Qantas is widely regarded as...
food
Food

Wine Tasting

Our full city tour in Buenos Aires in Argentina finished in front of a restaurant called Freud & Fahler, which was near our hotel in Palermo. We said goodbye to Elisabet, our...
hotels
Hotels

Hotel of poets

We stayed one night in a town called Lugo in Emilia Romagna in Italy. We were surprised to know that the hotel we stayed called Ala D’Oro had a long history. It...
food
Restaurants

Very friendly

For the first dinner in Bordeaux in France, we went to a restaurant called Chez Dupont, which we booked from the airport before leaving. It is a place introduced in ...
food
Food

Vineyard

On the way back from Valparaiso to Santiago in Chile, we stopped at a vineyard. This area is called Casablanca Valley and it is the famous wine region in the country. I...
transports
Transports

Frecciarossa from Paris to Milan

For the first time, we travelled by train from Paris, France to Milan, Italy. Our starting point was Gare de Lyon, the same station where we took the train to Fontainebleau a few...