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…
Rabat
A truly intercultural experience
It’s been a while since we last crossed continents and enjoyed a cross-cultural experience. Our destination was Morocco. Actually, this was my third time. The last time I visited was as long as…
It’s not really a travelling..
This time in London, England, we stayed at a large hotel called Dorsett Shepherds Bush London. It’s located on the other side of Shepherd’s Bush Green from the Shepherd’s Bush underground station, so…
As small as a prison cell
This time, our hotel was Elysees Niel Hotel, located north east of Arc de triomphe de l’Étoile. The location was good, and functional, but the room was so small. Fortunately our suitcase was…
Cyclo
When we were walking along the river in Da Nang in Vietnam, the drivers of Cyclo started talking to us. Cyclo is a cycle rickshaw and the name came from the French…
About Paantu, The Festival on Miyako-jima and Others
I will continue talking about our taxi tour on Miyako-jima, the island in Okinawa prefecture in Japan. The next place we visited was Shimajiri mangrove forest. This is the biggest mangrove forest on Miyako-jima and…
The Meijijingu
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. In this photo you can see Meiji shrine, one of the most important and typical tourist destination in Tokyo. It is always full of foreign tourists but...
the changeable weather in St Ives
We stayed at Poldhu Guest House in St Ives in Cornwall, the south western end of England. Because we decided to come to St Ives quite late, when we tried booking a...
American Airlines
On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day,...
Enjoyed the sophisticated dishes
Our friends in Paris took us to a restaurant called Pottoka. This restaurant serves French Basque dishes. It is a small restaurant and the atmosphere was relaxing. But the dishes were very...
Pousada in Estoi
We stayed one night in the Pousada in Estoi, a village located about 11 km north of Faro in the Algarve region in southern Portugal. Local people pronounced Estoi as eshtoi. I was...
Meat!
During our holiday in Calabria in southern Italy, we ate seafood everyday and by the end, I missed meat. So, when we went back to Milan, we looked for a good meat...
Meal in the mountain
This is the meal I had in a hut at Pian d'Artavaggio in the Alps.The left hand side is venison, which was good but the mushrooms on the right hand side was exceptionally.The...
train journey in England in the middle of the pandemic
In July, short time after the society started moving again, though the pandemic was still with us, we conjured up our courage to have a short holiday within England. The destination...
