Regional cuisine of the Aveyron
The first restaurant we went to in the Bercy district of Paris, France, where we stayed, was L’Auberge Aveyronnaise. My husband found and booked this restaurant online before the trip. It serves cuisine…
Paris
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…
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…
Sight seeing boat on the Douro River in Oporto
On the first night in Oporto, Portugal, we intended to dine at the restaurant listed in the guidebook. After dark, we went out on foot from the hotel. It had been raining all…
Stayed in a B&B and had great seafood
We stayed in a B&B called Maison Fleurie in Pescara, a seaside town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. B&B’s in England are usually bigger but ordinary residential houses where the…
Famous for “champagne”
We moved from Sevastopol to Balaklava and had a very good seafood lunch. This time, we had a sparkling wine, which was a little sweet and was called “Champagne”. Yalta in…
A Restaurant, Europe and Japan together
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. I read recently that in Italy some restaurants that serve mix of Italian and Japanese cookings. In Osaka, in Japan, I had the opportunity to have a...
National stone of Argentina
The things I was looking forward to in Argentina was not only meat, but also the pink gemstone called Rhodochrosite.
Meat, entirely
This is a restaurant I went in Evora in Portugal.In this country, the starters are brought to you without your asking them, which I experienced in Porto in the north of Portugal, too.They...
Lovely hotel and town walk
Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located...
The Waves of Azenhas do Mar and the Goat Meal
During our private tour from Lisbon in Portugal, after walking in the old town of Sintra, we visited a place called Azenhas do Mar, on the sea. The sea here is the...
Korean BBQ, again
We went to eat Korean Barbecue in Seoul again this year.It was a bigger restaurant than last year and Japanese tourists were coming in one after another.They came to pick us up in...
Holiday during our holiday, first to Modica
During our two-week stay in Syracuse, Sicily, we travelled away for one night. In other words, it was a little extravagant, as we wasted the cost of one night’s accommodation on Airbnb, but...
