Lecce
Evening Tai Chi Performance

Evening Tai Chi Performance

We ended up spending our summer holiday in Lecce, in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, because my husband was attending a special Tai Chi workshop there. On this particular day, he returned...

Apulia

Eat local cuisine from Apulia

In Nardò, a town in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, we had a reservation at a meat-focused restaurant called “Gli Artigiani.” My husband found it online and made the booking; it wasn’t…

Apulia

Revisiting Nardò

We had visited Nardò, in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, on a previous trip to the area. It was a charming town, but I felt I hadn’t really explored it thoroughly, so…

Lecce

Ballet in Piazza del Duomo

During our summer holiday in Lecce—a historic town in the Apulia region of Southern Italy—we spent an evening watching a ballet performance at an open-air theatre set up in the Piazza del Duomo….

Tenerife

The Lovely Restaurant in La Orotava

The day we visited the historic town of La Orotava in the north of Tenerife in Spain was a Sunday. Many of the restaurants there were not open on Sundays and we…

Japan

Visiting Yahiko Shrine, after eating manju

We ate Omokaru-manju, Japanese style bun, before going into Yahiko Shrine in Niigata, because my friend recommended this manju from Kameya shop.There were three tastes, soya sauce, brown sugar and sesame.I wanted to try…

Italy

The Sheep Pendant and the Garden Palace

In Sabbioneta, the World Heritage town in the north of Italy, we went to the Museum of Sacred Art next. This museum is one of the three places we could get in…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Eat Italian food in Tokyo

This is my friend, Bangly's posting. Usually when I travel I like to be totally absorbed in local customs, so I eat only local foods because foods are one of the forms of...
shopping
Shopping

A lovely embroidery shop whose name I forgot

As I mentioned before, the folk dance costumes we saw in Dubrovnik in Croatia were really cute. So I searched online and went to a local shop that specialises in embroidery such as...
airlines
Airlines

Viaggiare in aereo: Connettere mondi

Amiamo esplorare nuove destinazioni e il viaggio è spesso emozionante quanto l’arrivo. Mentre stiamo aggiornando i nostri archivi sulle compagnie aeree e sulle esperienze di volo, non vediamo l’ora di condividere nuovi spunti su come...
food
Food

I tried Mate tea in Iguazu

Our tour leader, who was English but an expert on the life in South America, was drinking Mate all the time from the start of our travels. He had his own cup...
hotels
Hotels

Typical resort hotel

After the grand Turkey tour, which I had to get up early every day, I fly over to Izmir and took bus to Cesme peninsula. I was a little apprehensive about moving around...
food
Restaurants

two Italian restaurants on Ishigaki Island

While we were staying on Ishigaki Island in Okinwa, Japan, we went to two Italian restaurants. One was called Il Pozzo. When we were walking on the back streets in the Ishigaki...
food
Food

I tried Mate tea in Iguazu

Our tour leader, who was English but an expert on the life in South America, was drinking Mate all the time from the start of our travels. He had his own cup...
transports
Restaurants

Light lunch and off we went to Zafra

After visiting the Roman bridge and the Roman theatre and stadium in Merida, a town of Roman ruins in western Spain, we were quite tired and hungry. So we decided to have a...