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….
Apulia
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…
A town that had as many as 120 churches
Lecce, in the Puglia region of Southern Italy, is said to have once been home to as many as 120 churches. I learned this while participating in a walking tour (costing €20, per…
Pastoral village
We joined a tour going inland of Santorini, away from Fira which was full of tourists. First, we visited a village called Mesa Gonia where our guide lived in summer. Here we…
A flood of weddings
This year the cherry trees blossomed later than usual and around the 7th April was the best in Tokyo. We had an opportunity to visit a famous wedding hall called Happoen in Tokyo….
After eating frogs, visited Morimondo Abbey
It seems that they often eat frogs outside of Milan in Italy, especially south west of the city. We had eaten them in Pavia before, but this time, we went to a restaurant called La…
Moscow-USSR-4
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. There were some small things that impressed me in Moscow, because things were different from the west: One of these was that the newspapers were basically free and a...
Selling by weight
In Volterra in Tuscany in Italy, we found one accessory shop which reproduce the ancient designs of Etruscans. The shop is called Fabula Etrusca and it is a cooperative of 5...
Viaggiare in aereo: Connettere mondi
Amiamo esplorare nuove destinazioni e il viaggio è spesso emozionante quanto l’arrivo. Mentre stiamo aggiornando i nostri archivi sulle compagnie aeree e sulle esperienze di volo, non vediamo l’ora di condividere nuovi spunti su come...
German foods are interesting
The representative of German food is sausage, but not only that. In this short trip. We ate quite a few interesting foods in Germany. This one in the photo is ‘liver dumpling’. It...
Sleepy wife and villain looking husband
The hotel we stayed in in Plovdiv, Bulgaria‘s second largest city, is named Boutique Hotel Boris Palace and is located in the middle of the old town. It’s a small hotel and has...
You cannot go wrong with this restaurant
On the second day in Dubrovnik, Croatia, we had a reservation at a restaurant called Moskar for lunch. This restaurant was recommended by a couple of friends who visited the town a few...
Conger special restaurant
A friend of ours took us to a restaurant in Nihonbashi in Tokyo called “Tamai” which is specialised in conger eel dishes. I had never eaten conger eel apart from the one...
sea and donkeys in Lindos
In Lindos, the old town in Rhodes in Greece when we arrived at the top of the hill where the Acropolis was, we could see the magnificent view of the sea. On one side, we...
