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…
Speciality is rabbit
The first dinner we had in Malta was at a restaurant called “Bacchus” in Mdina. It is housed in an old building built between 1658 and 1660 and it was very atmospheric. I…
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…
Deserted Market
We looked for the indoor market in Paphos in Cyprus, where we stayed. Our guide book says that it is in an early 20th century building. We did not expect too much…
In Moscow 1980
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we landed at the Moscow airport in April 1980, at the passport control we we found the officials wearing uniforms, with no smiles or no expressions. They looked...
Coral in Sardinia
When we were walking in the streets of the old town of Alghero in Sardinia in Italy, we noticed that many shops were selling coral jewellery. According to our guidebook and our research on the...
Restaurant with pastel colours
In Parma, I went to a restaurant called Gatta Matta (meaning 'Crazy She-cat'), where I could not go in last time because it was full.This restaurant is not typical Italian restaurants which has...
very good dinner in Perugia where we went by train
We went to Perugia in Umbria in Italy by train from Milan. Up to Florence it took only one hour and 40 minutes by Frecciarossa, the limited express train, but from there...
Very Reasonable
Because it was a fine day, we went out of Milan, in Italy, to a small town called Monticello, to have lunch. The name of the restaurant was l’Osteria del Muron,...
Sweet Salami
When we went to Mantova in Italy, we looked for a restaurant called Trattoria Due Cavallini which was in a restaurant guidebook. This was one of those old Italian restaurants with a long...
Enoden, nostalgic railway
I do not know why but most of us feel nostalgic riding Enoshima Electric Railway. On the day we had a walk in Kamakura, we bought one day ticket which costs 580 yen and...
