Edinburgh
Art Museum and Wine Bar

Art Museum and Wine Bar

Next in Edinburgh, Scotland, we visited the National Gallery. Looking back, I realised it had been a full eleven years since our last visit—not five, as I had thought. It is a museum...

Edinburgh

Have to go there at least once

We revisited the Whiski Bar in Edinburgh, Scotland—a place we’d always felt we simply *had* to visit. We remembered it was located on the Royal Mile, so we found it quite quickly. We…

Edinburgh

This old castle is a hidden gem

The next morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, it was raining. And it wasn’t just a drizzle; it was a proper downpour. We had decided to visit Craigmillar Castle—a spot my husband found online—so we…

Jedburgh

The Perfect Skeleton Abbey

On a day trip from Edinburgh to Melrose, Scotland, I noticed that the bus we boarded at the Tweedbank railway station was bound for Jedburgh. It suddenly occurred to me that Jedburgh was…

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…

Milan

Yellow in Milan

It started in Paris in 2007 and now all over the place. This rental bicycle service started in December 2008 in Milan. The bicycles are yellow in Milan, very Italian. In Paris they are…

Faro

The day our plan went wrong

When we are not on an organised tour, our travelling plans sometimes go wrong. The Saturday we traveled from Tavira to Faro in Portugal was one of those days. First, we planned…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Stay in a Ryokan

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. In the touristic town of Kotohira, in Kagawa prefecture, I stayed one night in a tipical Japanese hotel (Ryokan), called Tsuruya. My Japanese friend Shogo, who accompanied...
shopping
Shopping

Emerald in Bogotà

Some days before we left for Colombia, I was at an antique complex in London and a vendor told me “This emerald is from Colombia. The emeralds of Colombia is the best in the world“....
airlines
Airlines

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...
food
Food

Assorted ham and salami

We had a very light dinner, a glass of red wine with assorted ham and salami in Tirano, the border town between Italy and Switzerland. The red one on the right is called...
hotels
Hotels

Huge ryokan

On the second day of our family holiday in Noto Peninsula in Japan, we stayed in a huge ryokan called Notoraku in Wakura Onsen. They had even a bridge and a waterfall...
food
Restaurants

The nearby restaurant

The day we went to Chartres in France was very cold. When we are hungry, we feel even colder, don’t we. So after visiting the cathedral, we went straight to the nearby...
transports
Transports

Another Cable Car

There is another cable car in Dresden in Germany. To be accurate, this one is a suspension railway and it was opened in May, 1901. An engineer in Cologne invented it and...