Regional cuisine of the Aveyron
The first restaurant we went to in the Bercy district of Paris, France, where we stayed, was L’Auberge Aveyronnaise. My husband found and booked this restaurant online before the trip. It serves cuisine…
Paris
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…
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…
La Moneda Palace
This is the photo of La Moneda Palace, the presidential palace in Santiago in Chile. ‘Moneda’ means coins and it used to be the mint. This building was built by Joaquin Toesca,…
Disaster at the end of the holiday
Our summer holiday on the island of Ischia in southern Italy is almost over. At noon, we checked out of the Airbnb we were staying at in Forio and revisited La Tinaia, a…
The Hotel by Martin Margiela
I went to Paris by Eurostar.I bought the return train tickets and the hotel as a set which was quite reasonable price, so I did not notice until I get there, but the…
Meditate in a Zen garden
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in Kansai area I had the opportunity to visit the temple Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, which has one of the most important Zen gardens in...
Selling by weight
In Volterra in Tuscany in Italy, we found one accessory shop which reproduce the ancient designs of Etruscans. The shop is called Fabula Etrusca and it is a cooperative of 5...
Viaggiare in aereo: Connettere mondi
Amiamo esplorare nuove destinazioni e il viaggio è spesso emozionante quanto l’arrivo. Mentre stiamo aggiornando i nostri archivi sulle compagnie aeree e sulle esperienze di volo, non vediamo l’ora di condividere nuovi spunti su come...
the rabbit dish, Sardinian beer and the church
This was a normal weekday in Alghero, a town in the northwestern part of Sardinia, Italy. As always my husband had a walk in the morning and he went to the market and...
The Atmospheric Hotel and The Historic Miso Shop in Kakunodate
We stayed in “Tamachi Bukeyashiki Hotel” in Kakunodate in Akita prefecture in Japan. Their catchphrase is “the traditional warehouse-style hotel, surrounded by the black Kuroitabei (black wooden wall)”. As they say, the...
Fado, unexpectedly
In the evening when we came back from Monsanto village to Coimbra in Portugal, we went to a restaurant called A Conzinha da Maria. Does it mean ‘Maria’s kitchen’ perhaps? We just...
Three Crows
This is a ravioli dish I had in a restaurant facing the port in Genoa. Inside is sea-bass and the sauce was made of crab. Excellent! The name of the restaurant is Tre...
A diversity of Europe
I took a local train from Zermatt to Brig in Switzerland.And then I took an express train back to Milan in Italy.Soon after we left Brig, there were a range of long tunnels...
