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…
Pirates Boat on Lake Ashi
I do not know why it has to be the ‘pirates boat’ for the sight seeing boat on Lake Ashi in Hakone, but it seems popular here and has been going for about 60…
Wait for the bus
This is the view from the bus stop in Monsanto in Portugal. We saw this view for more than 40 minutes. That is because the 2 o’clock bus finally arrived at 2:25pm….
Polignano A Mare, revisited
The last destination in our family trip in Puglia, southen Italy was Polignano A Mare.I came here two years ago.This town was originally built by Greek and the houses are all white.This…
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...
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...
Tasting
In our short family holiday, we went to a sake brewery in Boso area in Chiba prefecture in Japan.It was called “Sommelier House Sakasho-no-Yakata”.I was imagining a very old establishment like the...
Weekend in Lincoln
One weekend in late autumn in November, we went to an old town, Lincoln, in the middle of England. We took a crowded train from Kings Cross in London to Peterborough first,...
The accommodation and our first meal
For our summer holiday in Ischia, Italy, we stayed at Airbnb. For the past four years, we have always chosen Airbnb for long-term stays. The Airbnb we chose in Forio, Ischia, was the...
Meatballs
This is a photo of #meatball dish which is a typical meal in #Rome. I ate this at a restaurant called Flavio al Velavevodetto. This time we had asked a friend of...
taking a boat in Oslo
Coming back from the walking tour on the river where they redeveloped well to the port area in Oslo, Norway, we found that this area has been redeveloped as well and...
