Moret-sur-Loing
A beautiful town of history and art

A beautiful town of history and art

On the second day of our short trip to France, we went to Fontainebleau, where our friends live. Normally, you can go directly from Lyon station in Paris, but due to station construction,...

Paris

That evening’s walk

After enjoying a delicious lunch in the Bercy district of Paris, France, we finally checked into our hotel. This time, we stayed at the Ibis, a chain hotel. As I mentioned before, the…

Paris

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…

Liguria

Fashionable shops, too

In the beautiful village of Verezzi in Liguria, Italy, there are fasionable shops.The first one I went in was selling pretty small items from Asia including Japan.The owner is a chatty Greek and he…

England

Telephone Boxes

 The red telephone boxes are London‘s symbol. There is an interesting object using phone boxes in Kingston, just outside of London. It is called Out of Order and made by David Mach in 1988….

Umbria

Food market

The last place we visited in our Tuscany trip was Citta di Castello in Umbria. We went there because we had heard it is a beautiful place, but when we went into…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

A Restaurant, Europe and Japan together

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. I read recently that in Italy some restaurants that serve mix of Italian and Japanese cookings. In Osaka, in Japan, I had the opportunity to have a...
shopping
Shopping

Handicrafts in Scanno

Scanno, the town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, is small but they have high quality handicrafts. It is especially famous for the pendant called Presentosa. We also saw some of them...
airlines
Airlines

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...
food
Food

Conger special restaurant

A friend of ours took us to a restaurant in Nihonbashi in Tokyo called “Tamai” which is specialised in conger eel dishes. I had never eaten conger eel apart from the one...
hotels
Hotels

The worst flu in 20 years

We spent the end of the year in Italy. However, from the 23rd, I started to develop a fever, which is unusual for me. I couldn’t attend the planned Christmas party with our...
food
Restaurants

Tate St Ives and very good dinner

We could have enjoyed just walking around for hours in St Ives, the town in Cornwall in the south west England, but because this is a rare occasion, we decided to visit...
food
Food

Georgia is the Birthplace of Wine

I continue talking about our sightseeing tour in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia. We walked down from the hill where the Nariqala Fortress is situated towards the area of the...
transports
Transports

Sleeping Car in Ukraine

The sightseeing tour ended at the St. Andrew’s Church in Kiev, the capital city in Ukraine. We said goodbye to our guide and started walking down the long winding slope, called Andriyivsky...