Five years have passed since then
We went to Edinburgh, Scotland for the first time in five years. Our previous trip was a month-long stay, but this time it was just a short four-night trip. It was my husband’s…
Edinburgh
Romeo and Juliet at the Bastille
After spending a night at a friends’ house in Fontainebleau, France, our friend and her husband joined us in Paris. After meeting up with mutual friends—a couple living in Paris and another in…
After eating galettes, we went to the palace
In Moret-sur-Loing, France, we had lunch at a crepe shop by the river. The restaurant was called La Poterne. Apparently, there are roughly two types of crepes: sweet ones are called crepes, and…
Train with no drivers
This is Dockland Light Railway (DLR) which runs in east London. They run without any drivers, just like Yurikamome in Tokyo. I had a look and found that DLR comercially started in 1987 and…
The fat lady in Malta
We visited the National Museum of Archeology in Valletta, Malta and met the fat lady again. She is a figure dug out from 5000 years old ruin. She is not on her own, but there…
Portrait of the Couple
This is a photo of the sculptures in the cathedral in Meissen in Germany. They are bigger than life size of Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife, Adelheid, according…
Eat Italian food in Tokyo
This is my friend, Bangly's posting. Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of...
Shopping at the market
On the first day we started ‘living’ in Syracuse, a town in the south eastern part of Sicily in Italy, we went shopping at the wet market. Crossing the bridge from the new...
Traveling by Air: Connecting Worlds
We love exploring new destinations and the journey is often as exciting as the arrival. While we are currently updating our archives on airlines and flight experiences, we look forward to sharing more insights on...
The Day We Walked More Than 20,000 Steps in Tenerife
During our winter holiday in Tenerife in Spain, one day, we went to Tacoronte in the north of the island from La Laguna, by bus. According to the health application on our...
The room, the town and the dinner
The room was finally ready at Torlacite Kashta, a guesthouse in Chiprovtsi, a town in north western Bulgaria. We went out the back door of the room that works as the dining room...
Restaurants are in a cave, too
In Matera, the cave houses town in south Italy, the restaurants are in the caves, too. You can enjoy the atmosphere and eat quite different foods from the ones in the north like...
Simple cake
In the tour going into the inland of Crete, we had a rest at Askifoe Plateau.Here we are introduced a simple cake.It is a kind of crepe with cottage cheese and you put some...
about the first time we went to Norway
As of December 2020, when Covid-19 is still rampant, we are not in a situation that we can easily go here and there as usual, so I have run out of new travel...
