Argan oil and goats
In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…
Essaouira
A modest New Year’s Eve
We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…
A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley
A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…
The First Round Table Peace Meeting was Here
There is an important historic chapel in Sremski Karlovci in Serbia. This “Peace Chapel” is on a small hill outside of the centre of the town. This current building was built…
Night walk and hotel
We stayed at the Duomo Hotel in Chioggia, Veneto, Italy. It is called a boutique hotel, but it doesn’t feel like one at all. The main hotel is far away, and the reception…
To Alcazar
On the second day in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia in Spain, we had a full day of sightseeing. But first, breakfast. Because breakfast was not included in the hotel, we…
Mount Konpira
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. Before leaving the town of Kotohira, our aim was climbing up the mount Konpira and visiting the temple located on the peak. The path was quite difficult...
the changeable weather in St Ives
We stayed at Poldhu Guest House in St Ives in Cornwall, the south western end of England. Because we decided to come to St Ives quite late, when we tried booking a...
Air France
Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France (north of Paris). The airline’s global hub is at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport. According to the...
Sushi in Kanazawa was exceptional
I went to a sushi restaurant in Oumicho market in Kanazawa called Genpei. I have not eaten sushi as good as this for a long time! Especially the seasonal firefly squid was fantastic....
The hotel was a traditional house
I stayed in a hotel called Walliserhof in Zermatt in Switzerland. It is the traditional wooden building and I particularly remember the low ceiling. There was a Korean woman who speaks a bit...
A restaurant on top of a stable
When we went to Angera on Lake Maggiore, Italy, we went to look for a restaurant which has a good reputation on internet site. It is far from the lake itself in a...
Enjoyed the Scottish speciality
Haggis is probably the most famous Scottish food. When I said to my sister in Japan, “I’m going to eat haggis,” she said “what’s that?” and searched on the internet. And she said,...
Local Line
From Jiufen in Taiwan, we took a local train to Shifen. We pushed our way onto the train at Ruifeng station, because we had learned that there were no reservations and...
