The district of Bercy
We easily arrived at Cour St-Emilion station, the nearest metro station to our reserved hotel, via Metro Line 14 from Orly Airport in Paris, France. It was smoother than we expected; we arrived…
Paris
The problem in Paris this time
Almost every trip to Paris, France, presents some kind of problem. Trains are convenient for travelling from Milan to Paris. However, in early May, the Gare de Lyon, the Paris train station, was…
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…
The owners of Airbnb, and the winery
The next day, Maria and Gilles, the couple who owned the Airbnb in Nafplio, Greece, where we were staying, took us to a winery. We had made a verbal agreement with them when…
Schlossplatz and the church
On our last day in Stuttgart, southern Germany, I was planning to relax until check-out, but my husband, unusually, said, “Let’s go out for a bit,” so we headed for Schlossplatz in the…
Central Market
It was a fine day on our second day in Valencia, Spain. When we traveled from the airport to the hotel by taxi the night before, I thought the town was very…
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...
walk in the morning and then shopping
The weather was very nice on the second day in Tavira in Portugal. Our hotel was on top of the hill, so we started to walking down, visiting Igreja de Santa Maria...
Hokkaido soup
This is a photo of 'Hokkaido' soup I had in Oberstein in Germany.It was written like that in their menu.Very nice pumpkin soup, that was.
About disappointing hotel and our night walk
The hotel we stayed in Salamanca in Spain was a four-star hotel named Catalonia Plaza Mayor Salamanca. The location is excellent, right behind the Plaza Mayor, a beautiful square in the centre of...
Roman cuisine in northern Italy
After returning home from the summer holiday in Sicily, we went to northern Italy for some business. Although it wasn’t a holiday, we made a reservation at a restaurant of Roman cuisine in...
Unexpected food and the old town
After enjoying a boat ride in Tübingen, Germany, it was time for lunch. We hurried to a restaurant we’d planned to go, Gasthaus Baren. The reason we were rushing was because the previous...
Metro
This is a view inside a metro.I cannot remember which line it was, but it seemed a new carriage with colourful stripy seats.It was a nice surprise that I could use the tickets...
