Assilah
Quiet White Maze

Quiet White Maze

On our second day in Morocco, we left Rabat and headed north along the Atlantic coast to Assilah. When we entered the motorway, we passed through the toll booth using a system similar...

Rabat

The pub housed in a boat

After checking into our riad in Rabat, Morocco, we took a nap. That was because we’d been up at 3 AM that day. Waking up, we headed outside. The friendly riad staff recommended…

Rabat

Our accommodations were riad

On this trip to Morocco, we stayed at a riad almost every night. The same goes for our first night in Morocco in Rabat. We arrived at Riad Gyo, located just around the…

Rabat

The kasbah and the lunch

Our next stop in Rabat, Morocco, was Oudaya Kasbah. A kasbah is a former fortress with a small, inhabited town inside. This kasbah apparently dates back to the 12th century, after which people…

Czech Republic

Visit the castle

Prague castle is not one building, but several building complex within the castle wall. If you do not enter any of these buildings, you can walk through the site without paying any…

Buenos Aires

San Antonio de Areco, the Gaucho town

The next day, we had an excursion to San Antonio de Areco from Buenos Aires in Argentina. This town is situated 113km northwest of Buenos Aires in the Pampas with the population…

Walney Island

Leading characters were seals

During our short trip to the north in England, we visited Walney Island. There is a nature reserve area here and you need to pay £3 to enter. There are no staff…

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

Blue John and Haircut

On the last day of our short holiday in Lincoln, the city in the middle of England, we went into a jewellery shop that had interested me during our stay. The reason...
airlines
Airlines

Emirates airlines

Emirates is an airline based at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. According to the company’s official website, On 25th October 1985, Emirates flew its first routes out of Dubai with just two...
food
Food

Taste of coconut

We had our last dinner in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,  in our tour leader’s favourite restaurant. It was a bit of a walk from Ipanema beach and I think it was called...
hotels
Hotels

Comfortable hotel

After visiting Kanazawa in Japan, we separated from the rest of our family, and we continued on to Shirakawago in Gifu by bus. It took just over one hour. When we arrived...
food
Restaurants

The best restaurant in the town

The Carabinieri who helped us in Tuscany in Italy asked us if we had eaten lunch. We told them that because of the trouble we had, we missed it. Although it...
food
Food

Bread salad

This is a photo of the Bread Salad we ate in Monsanto in Portugal. It was very different from Italian Panzanella which is a salad dish with bread in it. This one...
transports
Transports

chaos of the port

The last destination of our holiday in Colombia was Isla Grande, one of the Rosario Islands which is about 35 km south west of Cartagena. This archipelago is made up of 27...