Paris
Regional cuisine of the Aveyron

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…

Paris

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…

Lombardy

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…

Malta

Speciality is rabbit

The first dinner we had in Malta was at a restaurant called “Bacchus” in Mdina. It is housed in an old building built between 1658 and 1660 and it was very atmospheric. I…

Italy

Two panna cotta

I love panna cotta.I first tasted it long time ago when I asked for a cream caramel in a restaurant in Firenze which they did not have and instead persuaded me to try…

Cyprus

Deserted Market

We looked for the indoor market in Paphos in Cyprus, where we stayed. Our guide book says that it is in an early 20th century building. We did not expect too much…

miranda-friends
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...
shopping
Shopping

Coral in Sardinia

When we were walking in the streets of the old town of Alghero in Sardinia in Italy, we noticed that many shops were selling coral jewellery. According to our guidebook and our research on the...
food
Food

Restaurant with pastel colours

In Parma, I went to a restaurant called Gatta Matta (meaning 'Crazy She-cat'), where I could not go in last time because it was full.This restaurant is not typical Italian restaurants which has...
food
Restaurants

Very Reasonable

Because it was a fine day, we went out of Milan, in Italy, to a small town called Monticello, to have lunch. The name of the restaurant was l’Osteria del Muron,...
food
Food

Sweet Salami

When we went to Mantova in Italy, we looked for a restaurant called Trattoria Due Cavallini which was in a restaurant guidebook. This was one of those old Italian restaurants with a long...
transports
Transports

Enoden, nostalgic railway

I do not know why but most of us feel nostalgic riding Enoshima Electric Railway. On the day we had a walk in Kamakura, we bought one day ticket which costs 580 yen and...