Marrakesh
And so the journey comes to an end

And so the journey comes to an end

Our year-end trip to Morocco has finally come to an end. By the time we returned to Marrakesh from our excursion to Essaouira, it was already getting dark, and we were caught in...

An astonishing number of boats
Essaouira

An astonishing number of boats

We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…

Argan oil and goats
Essaouira

Argan oil and goats

In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…

Tonight at the Opera House
Paris

Tonight at the Opera House

That night, we went to see a ballet at the Opera House (Palais Garnier) in Paris, which was one of the purposes of this trip to France. What was different from previous years…

Perfect hotel
Slovakia

Perfect hotel

The hotel we stayed in Bratislava in Slovakia was called Marrol’s Boutique Hotel. It was a perfect hotel which we have …

To La Peña de Francia
Sierra de Francia

To La Peña de Francia

We went on a day trip to Sierra de Francia, a mountainous area south of Salamanca, a university town in western Spain. It was introduced in a guidebook that there are “beautiful villages…

miranda-friends
Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e
Miranda Friends

Visiting an exhibition of Ukiyo-e

This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. A lot of people in Italy know the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his works, for example “the wave” or “36 views of mount Fuji”. They are on...
shopping
Eggs in Ukraine
Shopping

Eggs in Ukraine

 One of the Ukrainian traditional crafts is to put patterns on eggs. These ones were displayed within Kiev Pechersk Lavra, but we saw many in a craft market in the town. Each one is...
airlines
Alitalia
Airlines

Alitalia

Compagnia Aerea Italiana S.p.A. (Italian Air Company), operating as Alitalia, is the flag carrier and national airline of Italy, which took over the name, the landing rights, many planes and some other assets from the...
food
Cave restaurant
Food

Cave restaurant

After visiting Noravank monastery in Armenia, we went to a restaurant in a cave in this gorge. It was too simple to call a restaurant really. It was decorated with the...
hotels
Hotel in Sorrento
Hotels

Hotel in Sorrento

Our family holiday in Italy continues. We flew from Venice to Naples and stayed in Sorrento. The hotel was called Grand Hotel De La Ville, which was located about a 10 minutes...
food
Eating Tuscan foods and walking at night
Restaurants

Eating Tuscan foods and walking at night

La Vecchia Lira in Milan, Italy is one of our favourite Tuscan restaurants. It’s been a long time since we’ve been there due to the Covid-19 crisis. Moreover, I think it was the...
food
Queue to eat big bowl of seafood
Food

Queue to eat big bowl of seafood

The small restaurants in Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo opens at around 4 am and closes at 1 pm.It must have been only for the workers of the market, but now they are for...