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Valle d'Aosta

To the village where there are no pharmacies

[Apr. 2023] During this year’s Easter holiday, we took a short trip to Valle d’Aosta, which is located at the edge of northwestern Italy. Actually, we were planning to go to Turkey, and we had…

Lombardy

The story that our rental car was towed

[Mar. 2023] I’m not talking about the trip itself this time, but have you ever had the experience of a parked rental car disappearing the next day? It happened to us. While staying in Seregno,…

Italy

Ballet at Teatro Lirico

[Mar. 2023] The topic of ballet continues. In March, we saw “Giulietta e Romeo” at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, Italy. It was our first time to visit this theatre. It is located near the…

Tokyo

Ballet at the New National Theatre

[Feb. 2023] In February, when we were temporarily staying in Japan, we went to see a ballet at the New National Theatre in Tokyo with our friend from my high school. It was my first…

Tokyo

Sake and tofu meal

[Feb. 2023] During our temporary return to Japan, two friends from my university days made reservations for a tour and a meal at Ozawa Sake Brewery in Okutama, Tokyo. “The sake brewery tour starts at…

Yokohama

The next day was sunny

[Feb. 2023] On the second day in Yokohama, Japan, the sun was shining and completely opposite of the bad weather of the previous day. And it was warm, too. If we had planned this trip…

Yokohama

Thanks to our ‘angel’

[Feb. 2023] We spent a whole month in February this year with my elderly mother in Japan. On this day, the whole family (mum, my sister and her husband and us) was supposed to travel…

Madrid

At the end of our travel

[Jan. 2023] We returned to Madrid, the starting point of this trip, by train from Ávila in Spain. The station in Madrid we arrived after the journey, which took less than two hours on a…