Marrakesh
A disappointing riad

A disappointing riad

Our Morocco trip has finally reached Marrakesh, our final base. Marrakesh is the most bustling and chaotic city we’ve visited so far. As we entered the city, the traffic was extremely chaotic. Motorcycles...

Casablanca

Its only redeeming feature is its spaciousness

In Casablanca, Morocco, we stayed in a regular hotel for the first time on this trip. Up until then (and going forward), we had always stayed in riads. The hotel was the Melliber…

Casablanca

Inside a modern, massive mosque

The tour of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, has begun. The young man who guided us in English was very capable and interesting. Hassan II was the father of the current…

Casablanca

The main attraction here

For our End of the Year and New Year’s trip to Morocco, we left Fez and headed to Casablanca. I wondered why the agent had planned such a roundabout itinerary, considering Casablanca is…

Seville

Our shopping during this holiday

The trip to Andalusia, Spain is finally towards the end. After descending from Seville Cathedral, we went to the indoor craft market we saw the day before. The building, named Mercado de Artisania,…

Liguria

Sunset at Vernazza

By the time I reached Vernazza in Cinque Terre, the sun was already setting.It was a beautiful scenery.Vernazza was another town with colourful houses, but there was a church on the shore, which…

England

Taking photos in Regent’s Park

This summer in London, the weather is bad again, with a lot of rain. But we pop in to the Regent’s Park one weekend. This is one of the main parks in London…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

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...
shopping
Shopping

Handicrafts in Scanno

Scanno, the town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, is small but they have high quality handicrafts. It is especially famous for the pendant called Presentosa. We also saw some of them...
airlines
Airlines

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,...
food
Food

Cicchetti specialty and restaurant

While we were enjoying our walk at night in Venice, we went down a small side road and found a little restaurant specialized in Cicchetti. On that day, we had had a big lunch, so...
hotels
Hotels

Pleasant hotel

Unfortunately we had to give up continuing our family holiday in Kyushu in Japan. Because of that, we had to stay one night in Fukuoka. We chose “Hotel Active!” which was popular...
food
Restaurants

ant sauce

We decided to go to the restaurant in the cultural school, Escuela Tierra de Artes in Barichara in Colombia on the day we had a full day of walking and sightseeing tour...
food
Food

Menu of Easter feast

We always plan to go somewhere outside of western Europe for the Easter holidays, because the shops and services are closed in the west. The Orthodox church has got the different date...
transports
Hotels

Hotel and the shuttle bus

We stayed at a hotel called Edelweiss in the village of Pre Saint Didier in Valle d’Aosta, the north western tip of Italy. If you come by bus from Aosta and get off...