Casablanca
Its only redeeming feature is its spaciousness

Its only redeeming feature is its spaciousness

In Casablanca, Morocco, we stayed in a regular hotel for the first time on this trip. Up until then (and going forward), we had always stayed in riads. The hotel was the Melliber...

Casablanca

Inside a modern, massive mosque

The tour of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, has begun. The young man who guided us in English was very capable and interesting. Hassan II was the father of the current…

Casablanca

The main attraction here

For our End of the Year and New Year’s trip to Morocco, we left Fez and headed to Casablanca. I wondered why the agent had planned such a roundabout itinerary, considering Casablanca is…

Fez

That evening’s walk

After a thorough sightseeing tour of Fez, Morocco, we took a stroll through the medina surrounding our riad that evening. Ideally, we wanted to descend the hill and return to the more traditional…

Lithuania

By carriage

Klaipeda in Lithuania where we stayed this time faces Curonian Spit separated by the narrow sea. Cronian Spit is the long narrow spit, a land of accumulated sand. Apparently the length is…

Crimea

Skinny lion

This lion is at the entrance of Livadia Palace which is famous for Yalta Conference. The ribs are clearly visible. This palace was completed in 1911 as a summer retreat for…

Italy

Participating the Photomarathon

We participated the Photomarathon in Milan. What is Photomarason? It is an event that you keep taking photos following the themes given by …

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Stay in a Ryokan

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. In the touristic town of Kotohira, in Kagawa prefecture, I stayed one night in a tipical Japanese hotel (Ryokan), called Tsuruya. My Japanese friend Shogo, who accompanied...
shopping
Shopping

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...
airlines
Airlines

Eastern China Airlines

According to company’s official website, China Eastern Air Holding Company, headquartered in Shanghai, is one of the three largest major air transport companies in China. The company (formerly China Eastern Airlines established in 1988), was...
food
Food

Eating boar

This is a meal I had in Heidelberg in Germany. The meat is boar. The boar meat is more common than reindeer or bear I had this year, but still a bit special,...
hotels
Hotels

Scottish beef

On the day we visited Edinburgh with our friends, we stayed in a hotel called Edinburgh Capital Hotel in the suburbs of the city. Although we ate a big lunch, we had...
food
Restaurants

A restaurant we often go

This time when we visited Milan, I looked at my guidebook thoroughly and got surprised to see the restaurant we often go for lunch was listed there. The name is Ex Mauri and situated...
transports
Transports

Cruise in Russia

The biggest country in the world, featuring for the first time on this blog, is Russia. Actually both my husband and I have been there during the time of the Soviet Union,...