Paris
Regional cuisine of the Aveyron

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…

Paris

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…

Lombardy

The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant

For lunch that day, we had a reservation at Trattoria Posallo, a restaurant on the outskirts of Colico, a town at the northern end of Lake Como in northern Italy. As usual, my…

Bogota

The Gold Museum in Bogota

The Gold Museum in Bogotà is one of the main things to see in Colombia. Apparently they keep as many as 55,000 historical gold artifacts. They show only a part of them…

Sorrento

We found a good restaurant nearby

On the day we arrived in Sorrento in southern Italy, it was 4pm, which was an odd time, but we were hungry, so we searched for restaurants that were open. Fortunately, a nearby…

Venice

The island of Armenian people

There is an island of Armenian people in Venice in Italy. When we were planning for this holiday, my husband found this island, Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni online. It is…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Relaxed in a Jazz bar in Kobe

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. Our friend Okazawa-san accompanied us in Kobe city. It is only half an hour by train from Osaka. Kobe is a city near the mountain and the...
food
Food

The Cake in Sintra

On the second day in Lisbon in Portugal, we had a private tour to Sintra, which we had booked before coming to the country. Sintra is about 30km northwest of Lisbon and...
food
Restaurants

Writers gather here

Friends of mine, living in Paris took us to this pub in a back street. In the past, Japanese author Fumiko Hayashi, a painter Tsuguji Fujita and etc, got together here. The name...
food
Food

Pancake

This is the photo of pancake we had as starters in Klaipeda in Lithuania. The front one is pancake with cabbage, and the one behind is spinach and mushroom, and the sauce...
transports
Transports

Enoden, nostalgic railway

I do not know why but most of us feel nostalgic riding Enoshima Electric Railway. On the day we had a walk in Kamakura, we bought one day ticket which costs 580 yen and...