Our main purpose, Oban
On this tour to the Scottish Highlands, our main purpose was to visit the port town of Oban. This place is said to be the “Seafood Capital of Scotland.” When we came here…
Highlands
Revisited the Highlands
The day after we returned to Glasgow from Barra Island in the Hebrides of Scotland, we went on a one-day tour of the Highlands. This is a tour run by a travel company…
Airport and the flight on the way back
It’s almost time to say goodbye to Barra Island in the Hebrides, Scotland, where we spent the night. We took a bus to the airport from the Castlebay bus stop. The flight was…
Lunch and shopping at a stylish shop
It was early afternoon when we arrived at Monsanto in Portugal. First, we looked for somewhere to eat. We went in to a shop on Rua do Castelo, a slope from the…
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…
Sultry Pamukkale
I always wanted to visit Pamukkale in Turkey. I have seen many photos with white terraced field with pail blue water. Unexpected thing was how we encounter this area. This white area is in…
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...
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“....
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...
BHV
We went into a cafe restaurant near Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris for lunch. I had some quiche, which was not bad, but very expensive. You have to avoid the tourist area for eating,...
Gorgeous like a palace
We went to Taiwan joining a tour which we could book online. When we needed to choose the hotel, I found this very Chinese looking Grand Hotel and chose it without any hesitation. It...
7 brothers
In Rethymno in Crete, there are a lot of restaurants where you would like to dress up and go. While we stayed in the town, we tried a few, but our favourite was the...
Feeling Happy With Good Seafood
We went to a restaurant listed in our guide book in the small fishing village of Latchi in Cyprus. There were not many tourists around at this time of the season and restaurants...
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...
