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…
Paris
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…
And so the journey comes to an end
Our year-end trip to Morocco has finally come to an end. By the time we returned to Marrakesh from our excursion to Essaouira, it was already getting dark, and we were caught in traffic that…
This is the Olympic Stadium everyone watched
This is the Olympic Stadium that everyone in the world watched this summer. We were away for holiday this summer avoiding the crowd, so this was the first time I saw this actually. At…
Arabic bath in Cordoba
We went to a Hamam called Banos Arabes in Cordoba. The interior of the bath was very decorative and Arabic, which was very nice and interesting. It reminded me of a bath in…
There are many slopes here too
The first thing you notice when you go to Glasgow, Scotland is that there are many slopes. Our hotel faces a flat street, but all the roads that come out at right angles…
Moscow-USSR-2
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we started our stay, they gave us our group itinerary, which included our free days to do whatever we wanted. But we were allowed to move around only...
Lapis lazuli
One of the things I was looking forward to in this South America tour was ‘stones’. Chile is the one of the major sources of Lapis Lazuli. This stone has an ultramarine...
The local dish
Idar-Oberstein in Germany is famous not only for its gem stones, but also for its local dish called Spiessbraten.They cook pork which was marinated for 24 hours at the open fire with firewood...
Pousada in Tavira
In our short holiday in Portugal in order to avoid the cold, we stayed two nights in Tavira, which is about 40 km east of Faro in Algarve. The reason why we...
Walk in the twilight and a restaurant
After seeing a puppet show, a famous Sicilian performing art, in Syracuse, Italy, we took a walk in the old town of Ortigia. From the south to the north along the east...
Tasty things
This is a dessert we had in Yalta. There is some cherry inside the skin and you dip into the honey sauce. They called it Variniki. Other thing I ate and...
To unknown Tuscany
Our journey in Italy continues. We wanted to go to Tuscany for the first time in a while, but as we learned from our trip to Lake Como in April, famous places were...
