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Topsham

Seafood at Topsham

[ Aug.2016 ] We went to Topsham to eat seafood from Exeter, south west England. The restaurant is called The Galley, which was recommended in a website. It was a small restaurant with interesting chairs…

Exeter

Exeter Cathedral

[ Aug.2016 ] The last destination of our travels with my mother who stayed with us in London was Exeter, the city in the south west England. This was my first visit there, too. It…

Hythe

Extremely small locomotive train

[ Aug.2016 ] While my mother was staying with us in London, our friends invited us for an excursion to Kent, south England. They said ‘you will find something surreal today’ when they came to…

Warsaw

Chopin Tour – 2

[ Aug.2016 ] The latter half of the Chopin Tour in Warsaw, Poland, took us to the places outside of the city and we visited his birthplace and the church where he was baptized. Frederic…

Warsaw

Chopin tour – 1

[ Aug.2016 ] On the last day of our stay in Warsaw, we joined the Chopin Tour. This time the guide who came to pick us up at our accommodation was a fairly old man…

Warsaw

Current Poland and ‘UkiUki’ restaurant

[ Aug.2016 ] My husband asked Mariusz, our guide who took us around for the Communism Tour, about the current situation in Poland. So he stopped the minibus on a bridge and started chatting. According…

Warsaw

Communism tour – 2

[ Aug.2016 ] I continue talking about our Communism Tour in Warsaw. We went into the area called Praga across the river from the centre of the city. The poorer working class people live here…

Warsaw

Warsaw – Communism Tour – 1

[ Aug.2016 ] During our stay in Warsaw we signed up for the ‘Communism Tour’. We learned a lot about events and people’s life during the communist era visiting related places. A 40 year old…