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…
The only shopping we did in this holiday
In Gjirokaster, an old town in Albania, we stayed at a hotel near the bustling city centre, where shops were lined up like a bazaar. The hotel was called Hotel Argjiro. It seems…
Well made museum
Peel in Isle of Man is a quiet fishing town, but there is a well made fine museum called House of Manannan. Manannan is a sea god in Celtic myth, and…
Ano Syros
Ano Syros is an old town on the hill behind Ermoupoli, the main town in Syros island. Venetian people built this as a part of Duchy of Naxos in the beginning of…
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...
Handicrafts in Scanno
Scanno, the town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, is small but they have high quality handicrafts. It is especially famous for the pendant called Presentosa. We also saw some of them...
Orange salad
At lunch time, I went into a restaurant, just next to the fish market in Catania, Sicily. Of course the fresh sea-foods were excellent, but for me the orange salad was amazing. 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...
meal at the bullring in Antequera
During our short holiday in Andalucia in Spain, we went for the day to Antequera from Marbella where we stayed. That was because on the previous day when we visited the tourist...
Ice Wine and Quebecoise cuisine
The next place we went during our food tour on Ile d’Orlean, the island in the suburbs of Quebec City in Canada was a winery. We had leaned that Canada produces...
Metro, tragedy and hospital
After taking a peek at the El Corte Inglés department store in Lisbon, Portugal, we decided to take the metro from there. This was our first time on the Lisbon metro. There was...
