A beige-coloured medina and a messy pottery shop
Our next stop on our Fez, Morocco sightseeing trip was a hilltop with a magnificent view. On this hilltop stood the Borj Nord fortress, built in the 16th century. At the time, Portugal…
Fez
Serious Hassan
Our second day in Fez, Morocco, was packed with sightseeing. At 10:00 AM, our local guide, Hassan, picked us up at our riad. Unlike our guide in Tangier, he was a humble, serious,…
It was supposed to be a chaotic town, but…
We arrived in Fez, one of Morocco‘s major cities. First, we drove through the new city, which seemed like a very orderly metropolis. Here too, we stayed in a riad located in the…
Difference between professional and amateur
In Italy, it is rare to come across bad foods in restaurants, but service can be varied. The ones which has been run bay a family for a long time will not disappoint…
Home visit in Karimabad
I continue talking about Karimabad, the utopia in the northern Pakistan. Apparently people around here call themselves the descendants of Alexander the Great and in fact many of them had blue eyes and pale…
Lake Ohrid
One of the highlights of this Ancient Macedonia tour we joined was this Lake Ohrid. It is listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO and the best summer resort in Macedonia. The town was…
Moscow-USSR-4
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. There were some small things that impressed me in Moscow, because things were different from the west: One of these was that the newspapers were basically free and a...
Emerald in Bogotà
Some days before we left for Colombia, I was at an antique complex in London and a vendor told me “This emerald is from Colombia. The emeralds of Colombia is the best in the world“....
Virgin Atlantic Airlines
According to company’s official web site, Virgin Atlantic Airways is a success story. Back In the early 80s Richard Branson was probably best known for Virgin Records – the legendary record label that signed major...
About the wine here
Melnik, a village in the southwest of Bulgaria, has long been known as a wine-producing region. Many of the traditional houses in the village have wine cellars, and Hotel Slavova Krepost, where we...
The hotel and the enoteca in Parma
On that day, we entered Emilia-Romagna from Cremona in Lombardy, Northern Italy, and stayed overnight in Parma. On the way, we stopped off in Fontanellato, where there is a castle called Rocca San...
Seafood Lunch in Puerto de la Cruz
One day, while we were walking in Puerto de la Cruz in the north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, we looked for an archaeological museum recommended in our guidebook, which supposedly...
Korean BBQ, again
We went to eat Korean Barbecue in Seoul again this year.It was a bigger restaurant than last year and Japanese tourists were coming in one after another.They came to pick us up in...
Local Line
From Jiufen in Taiwan, we took a local train to Shifen. We pushed our way onto the train at Ruifeng station, because we had learned that there were no reservations and...
