Feeling déjà vu in Santa Margherita Ligure
We had a short trip to Liguria in Northern Italy for the first time in a while. This time, our destination was Santa Margherita Ligure, a place we’d never been to before. After…
Liguria
In Novara, where we went to see the ballet
Novara, located in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, is not well known, but it has many attractions, including a tall domed church and medieval buildings. And for a provincial city, it’s home…
Dining at the monastery
My husband told me he’d made a reservation at a restaurant inside the monastery, so I was very curious to see what kind of simple food I’d be served. The Torba Monastery is…
Homeland of Boccaccio
The names I learned as a child remain somewhere in the back of my mind, and the poet Boccaccio is one of them. Certaldo, in the Tuscany region of Italy, where we stayed,…
Funny looking trees in Alcazar
The Alcazar in Cordoba was rather simple built by the Christian royalty and very different from the one in Seville which is full of Islamic decorations. The trees in the nice garden were…
Medieval Aqueduct and Easter Procession
I continue talking about our visit to Sulmona in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. We walked up the main street, called Corso Ovidio, from the southern end and found a huge…
The small town of Kotohira
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. The first stop of my travel in Kagawa prefecture in Japan was Kotohira city. During day time this city is very busy because it is located on...
Stroll in La Alberca
After reaching the summit of the Sierra de Francia, a scenic mountainous area in the province of Salamanca in western Spain, we visited La Alberca, which is said to be a typical village...
Vietnam Airlines
According to company’s official website, the history of Vietnam Airlines dates back to January 1956 when the Vietnam Civil Aviation Department was established by the Government, marking the birth of the civil aviation industry in...
Nizza Monferrato
On the day we went to Piedmont with my Japanese friend, after eating a great lunch, we moved on to Nizza Monferrato. She read a novel recently that was set in this...
one night in Telč
We went to Telč, which is listed in the Unesco’s World Heritage list from Brno in Moravia region in Czech Republic. Telč is on the border of Moravia and Bohemia. When...
dishes of Rome
We got up very early again, this time to go to Rome. This was the first time I had been to Fiumicino Airport in Rome in 35 years, though we went through there for transit...
Watermelon
After enjoying our walk along the promenade and tasting the lovely ice cream in Italy, we headed back to our B&B. On the way, we found this stall selling only watermelon....
Ride on a Gondola
We had a ride on a gondola again in Venice. There was four of us this time and the gondolier told the heavier men to sit on one side, so the boat...
