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…
Madrasa and lunch
The last stop on our guided walking tour in Marrakesh, Morocco, was the Ben Youssuf Madrasa, a former religious school. Entry cost 50 dirhams (approximately 4.70 euros). Founded in the mid-16th century and…
Walk in Ostuni
Among the places we went this time in south Italy, my family were most excited when they saw Ostuni.The view of the white houses on a hill was very impressive for me,…
Trenino trip was a wrong choice
On our third day in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, we took a Trenino tour outside the town. A Trenino is a small train. It’s a train-shaped tourist bus, common in tourist areas. In…
Incidentally, Florence
After a trip to not well known towns in the Tuscany region of Italy, we returned to Florence. Our booked Freccia Rossa from Florence was just before 7pm, and we had a few…
A Restaurant, Europe and Japan together
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. I read recently that in Italy some restaurants that serve mix of Italian and Japanese cookings. In Osaka, in Japan, I had the opportunity to have a...
Mr. Matsuo who is full of love for his hometown
Taking a break from sightseeing in the old town of Plovdiv in Bulgaria, we went to a souvenir shop. It was a shop where crafts were rather messily placed in a shop that...
Air India
Air India is India’s national flag carrier. Although air transport was born in India on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquet, flying a Humber bi-plane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles...
Hokkaido soup
This is a photo of 'Hokkaido' soup I had in Oberstein in Germany.It was written like that in their menu.Very nice pumpkin soup, that 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...
At the restaurant in Castelfiorentino
In Castelfiorentino, a town in the Tuscany region of Italy, my husband made a reservation at a restaurant called Il Gusto e il Tatto by mistake. He had intended to make a reservation...
The hearty eater
This is a restaurant called Victory in Monza, north Italy.The dish is the grilled vegetable, which is nice and simple and I order almost every time when I eat seafood as the main...
Rickshaw
The highlight of our stay in Delhi was the rickshaw ride.This was real transport system for people living there, not like in Japan where rickshaws are for tourists.They pulled it by bicycle.We...
