Lombardy
The nature of Colico and a simple restaurant

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...

Marrakesh

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…

Essaouira

An astonishing number of boats

We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…

Paris

To Paris, Where the Demonstration Was Planned

We went to Paris to see the ballet in early December. Paris and all over France has been stormy since late autumn because of the Yellow Vest demonstrations that are happening…

Casares

Gem on top of the mountain

On the last day of our short holiday in Andalucia in the south of Spain, because our flight was late at around 7 pm, we decided to go to Casares which the…

Lombardy

Fallen soldiers in Solferino

Solferino, where we visited from Milan in Italy for one day, is famous for a battle. On 24th of June, 1859, during the war between Austria and the allied forces of Italy…

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Miranda Friends

In Moscow 1980

This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we landed at the Moscow airport in April 1980, at the passport control we we found the officials wearing uniforms, with no smiles or no expressions. They looked...
food
Food

Enjoyed the Scottish speciality

Haggis is probably the most famous Scottish food. When I said to my sister in Japan, “I’m going to eat haggis,” she said  “what’s that?” and searched on the internet. And she said,...
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Hotels

A Big Room

This is a part of the room in Lotte Hotel in Seoul. It was a surprisingly big room. Is it because Korea is in a continent and has a plenty of land? Or...
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Restaurants

British pub lunch

We went to Greenwich in East London on a sightseeing boat and arrived just at lunchtime. My husband said that since we were in England, he wanted to eat fish and chips, so...
food
Food

Restaurants are in a cave, too

In Matera, the cave houses town in south Italy, the restaurants are in the caves, too. You can enjoy the atmosphere and eat quite different foods from the ones in the north like...
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Transports

Train with no drivers

This is Dockland Light Railway (DLR) which runs in east London. They run without any drivers, just like Yurikamome in Tokyo. I had a look and found that DLR comercially started in 1987 and...