Both horse meat and wine were good choice
Parma, Italy, is a treasure trove of food. Of the many good restaurants, my husband chose Trattoria Corrieri. Our relatives who live in Parma also gave it their stamp of approval. When we…
Parma
See the “masterpiece of medieval religious art”
Parma, located in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, is more famous for its ham and cheese, but the cathedral is also worth seeing. After all, I read on the internet that it is…
The hotel and the enoteca in Parma
On that day, we entered Emilia-Romagna from Cremona in Lombardy, Northern Italy, and stayed overnight in Parma. On the way, we stopped off in Fontanellato, where there is a castle called Rocca San…
Newly Listed as a World Heritage
A friend of mine came over from Japan, so we went to Piedmont in Italy. She has got the second grade of UNESCO’s World Heritage certificate and she told us that this…
When you pass through a rainbow…
Lake Sevan in Armenia is at 1900m above sea level. This is one of the largest lakes in the high altitude in the world. But during Soviet era, the water was…
Representative of Sicilian sweet
The Lipari island is about one hour from the main Sicily by hovercraft.So the sweets there are mainly Sicilian.I had this Cannolo in a small wine shop/restaurant called Essepiu' Enoteche.I looked up and…
The beautiful town of Akashi
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. On the second day in Osaka, after breakfast, we met a Japanese friend who lives here. His name is Mr. Okazawa and he became our guide. We...
A big impulse shopping
After enjoying the museum in Chiprovtsi, a carpet-weaving town in northwestern Bulgaria, we returned to our hotel. I wanted to buy a kilim woven by the owner of the inn, Ilya’s mother, as...
American Airlines
On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day,...
Scotch whisky experience
Our stay in Edinburgh has come towards the end, and we had little time left to try Scotch whisky. Late in the afternoon, we headed out to the Old Town to a museum,...
A town called Torquay
The reason why we chose Torquay, a town in southwest England, as our last domestic trip in the UK is because there was someone we wanted to meet. My husband meets her every...
an excellent restaurant
When you hear the word Greece, you would imagine blue skies and bright sunshine, but on the next day on Zakynthos Island, it was cloudy. Because of the strong wind, the tour...
The restaurant with good piglet meal
On the first night, we wanted to go to the restaurant listed in our guide book, but that one was fully booked.A woman there pointed ” That one is good” and it...
An overnight trip during the holiday
During our trip to Extremadura, Spain, we were staying in Caceres, but we wanted to go to Zafra, too, which is a little further south. Looking at the map, it wasn’t that far...
