Essaouira
Argan oil and goats

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...

Marrakesh

A modest New Year’s Eve

We returned to Marrakesh, Morocco. It happened to be New Year’s Eve. Since Morocco has a different calendar, there were no local events, but we wanted to do something memorable. On a whim,…

Ourika Valley

A disappointing excursion to the Ourika Valley

A trip to the Ourika Valley was included in our itinerary from Marrakesh, Morocco. The Ourika Valley is a resort area located a little over an hour’s drive south of Marrakech. It’s a…

Marrakesh

That night

After a full day of sightseeing in Marrakesh, Morocco, we went to a bar called La Pergola where we could enjoy alcohol. As I’ve mentioned many times before, in Morocco, alcohol has been…

Tokyo

Deep fried skewers in a historical building

Every time when we go back to Japan, our friends and family plan something interesting for us. This time we went to eat a Japanese deep fried skewers dish in a historical…

Carmona

About the breakfast in Carmona

For this trip to Andalusia in Spain, none of the hotels had the breakfast included. We chose that way because Croissants and cappuccino are enough in the morning. For our first breakfast in…

Zakynthos

An excellent restaurant

When you hear the word Greece, you would imagine blue skies and bright sunshine, but on the next day on Zakynthos Island, it was cloudy. Because of the strong wind, the tour…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

USSR, Moscow 1980 – 3

This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. Walking around in Moscow, we were surprised to see no foods on the shelves in the supermarket, included the famous department store called Gum. But in the hotel we...
shopping
Hotels

the changeable weather in St Ives

We stayed at Poldhu Guest House in St Ives in Cornwall, the south western end of England. Because we decided to come to St Ives quite late, when we tried booking a...
airlines
Airlines

Finnair

Finnair Plc is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland with its headquarters in Vantaa and its main hub at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. According to company’s official web site, Finnair is one of world’s oldest...
food
Food

The salmon in Denmark is excellent

This is a photo of smoked salmon I ate as a starter in an old restaurant called Den Gamle Kro in Odense in Denmark. The waiter came to my table with a whole fish and...
hotels
Hotels

Small room and the good supper

This time in Paris, France, we stayed at a three-star hotel called Color Design Hotel. It bothered me a little that the receptionist was being so nice only to my husband, but oh...
food
Restaurants

Dinner

Our new year’s eve dinner finally started at around 10pm in Bariloche in Argentina. The restaurant was called Jauja and this was the one which our tour leader’s favourite ice cream shop...
food
Food

Salmon in Murakami

Murakami city in the Niigata prefecture in Japan is not huge, with a population of only about 60,000 people, but there are many famous products. One of them is salmon. We visited...
transports
Transports

Easygoing trolleybus

The capital city of Crimea is Simferopol where the airport is and from there to Yalta in south is more than 80 km. The transport which connects these two towns is...