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…
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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…
Excellent restaurants and walking tours of the medina
After strolling around the harbour in Essaouira, a town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, we looked for a restaurant called Restaurant Du Coeur in town. Restaurant Du Coeur is a seafood restaurant….
Refreshing Mountain View
The next place we visited in Mestia, the town in Svaneti in Georgia, was the Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography. The original museum was built in 1936, but the current modern…
Lots of seals
After the ferry left Esbjerg in Denmark, we went out to the deck and saw some very shallow islands. And on them, there were a lot of seals ( I mean seals or sea…
Concert at Frauenkirche
We stayed in Dresden in Germany for a week. On the last night, we went to a concert in Frauenkirche. We thought we bought good seats, the front row of the first floor,…
Japanese whisky
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. I like whisky very much. Since I was a boy I have appreciated European whiskies, especially Irish and Scottish. Because I knew that Japan produces good whiskies,...
That evening’s walk
After a thorough sightseeing tour of Fez, Morocco, we took a stroll through the medina surrounding our riad that evening. Ideally, we wanted to descend the hill and return to the more traditional...
Only bread?
I ate Fondue in Zermatt in Switzerland.I thought I had eaten Fondue before somewhere, but it was not true.Because I did not expect that you put only bread in the melted cheese.The cheese...
Hotel where Napoleon’s army was stationed
When we had a short holiday in Veneto in north Italy, we stayed one night at a hotel called Ca'Sette which was in the suburbs of Bassano del Grappa. This property was...
Year-end feast
It was New Year’s Eve while staying in Sorrento in southern Italy. We headed to a restaurant called Donna Sofia, which we had booked in advance. I dressed up a little, but this...
Cake in Andalucia
On the way from Granada to Ubeda by bus in Spain, we stopped at a place called Jaen for 20 minutes. We went out to the town and found a small market. Here...
About simple lunch and waiting for the bus
After visiting Bachkovo Monastery in Bulgaria, we had a light lunch at one of the cafeterias along the approach. The name is Bistro Abdera. The reason I chose this one among the cafeterias...
