Accompanied by a local guide
After Assilah in northern Morocco, our next stop was Tangier. We stayed overnight here. First, we visited the Caves of Hercules, which we had no interest in, and the nearby lighthouse (where the…
Tangier
Today’s lunch and the mystery of the plate
After exploring medina of Assilah, a coastal town in Morocco, it was time for lunch. We went to the restaurant recommended by our driver, Youssuf. The restaurant, called Dar Al Maghrebia, is located…
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…
Spectacles
There is a room called Chapter Chamber at the end of the cathedral of Toledo, Spain. Here there were a row of the portraits of successive archbishops. Of course the earliest ones…
Hotel in Inari
I do not know why, but northern European houses are all wooden. The hotel we stayed in Inari, the town in the Arctic Circle in Finland was a sort of B&B and the…
Volcano festival
The day we arrived in Santorini happened to be the day of their Volcano Festival. Fireworks were displayed from the small volcanic island of Nea kameni situated opposite of the main island….
The Meijijingu
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. In this photo you can see Meiji shrine, one of the most important and typical tourist destination in Tokyo. It is always full of foreign tourists but...
Mr. Matsuo who is full of love for his hometown
Taking a break from sightseeing in the old town of Plovdiv in Bulgaria, we went to a souvenir shop. It was a shop where crafts were rather messily placed in a shop that...
Thai Airways International
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited is the national carrier of the Kingdom of Thailand. It operates domestic, regional and intercontinental flights radiating from its home base in Bangkok to key destinations around the world...
Two panna cotta
I love panna cotta.I first tasted it long time ago when I asked for a cream caramel in a restaurant in Firenze which they did not have and instead persuaded me to try...
Another hotel in Granada
This is a photo of another hotel in Granada, called Santa Isabel la Real. It is in the Albaicin area, which is, according to my guide book, rather dangerous with many pick pockets...
skewered mutton and small pizza
The last meal we had in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy was skewered mutton. As you can see from the photo above, they looked like Japanese yakitori, but they were not...
Meal in the mountain
This is the meal I had in a hut at Pian d'Artavaggio in the Alps.The left hand side is venison, which was good but the mushrooms on the right hand side was exceptionally.The...
to Zaragoza in Spain
We got up early again and this time headed for Zaragoza in Spain. First we flew to Madrid. Because of the fog in Heathrow airport in London, our flight delayed by more...
