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…
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…
Coral in Sardinia
When we were walking in the streets of the old town of Alghero in Sardinia in Italy, we noticed that many shops were selling coral jewellery. According to our guidebook and our research on the…
Duomo in Ragusa Ibla
There are two “cathedrals” in the historic town of Ragusa in Sicily, Italy. One is the Basilica of San Giovanni Battista in the New Town and the other is the Basilica of San…
A Balcony in Montepulciano
Montepulciano is a pretty town in Tuscany. We stayed in an old hotel with a balcony, which had a good atmosphere. The landlady of the hotel told us that there used be a lot…
People in Osaka
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting I don’t have enough experience to evaluate the different characters of Japanese people depending on where they are from, but soon after I went out of the...
Necklace from a museum
I bought this necklace of the photo at the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar, Croatia. They said that it was made at the workshop in the museum. This museum was...
Bread is very good
This is a photo of the garlic bread I ate in a cafe in Hoi An in Vietnam. It was lovely for them to serve it like this on some leaves, which...
Hotel in Rome
We stayed in #Hotel Portoghesi in the historical part of #Rome.It is a three star hotel, but they renovated an old building very nicely and our room had a good atmosphere including...
Enjoyable and good foods
There is a lovely restaurant in the aquarium called Oceanografico in Valencia in Spain. The name of the restaurant is Submarino. The speciality here is the setting. The restaurant space is surrounded...
Pintxo
Everywhere in Basque country in Spain, you would notice Pintxos, their special food. It is like an elaborate version of canape. They use bread instead of crackers and on top of...
By local trains
Because the weather is not usually nice in England, when it is sunny in the weekend, I feel I ought to go somewhere.On this Saturday, we decided to go to Windsor.I found...
