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Armenia

To Armenia

[ Autumn 2005 ] This is my memory of travelling in 2005, which I took my old film SLR, before I bought a digital camera. I joined an English group tour from London and went…

Lombardy

The castle was my shelter from the rain

[ May, 2013 ] After having a nice meat dish for my lunch in Brescia in north Italy, I went up the hill to help my digestion towards the Brescia Castle.It was built in the…

Lombardy

Excursion to Brescia

[ May, 2013 ] On a sunny Sunday, I went to Brescia where I could not go in April.This is the second largest city in Lombardy region in north Italy, after Milan and has got…

Alemania

Sadness in Hofbauhaus

[ May, 2013 ] The last place in Munich we went this time was the world famous Hofbauhaus. This beer hall founded in 1644 must be the most famous one in the world. In the…

Germany

Sadness in Hofbauhaus

[ May, 2013 ] The last place in Munich we went this time was the world famous Hofbauhaus. This beer hall founded in 1644 must be the most famous one in the world. In the…

Germany

The oldest beer garden in Munich

[ May, 2013 ] Our destination in the Englischergarten in Munich was the beer garden around the “Chinese Tower”. This beer garden has been here since 1791 and the oldest in Munich. Here, we had…

Germany

Surfing in the stream

[ May, 2013 ] There is a large park in Munich whose name is Englischer Garten. It is one of the biggest city centre parks in the world, larger than Hyde Park in London and…

Japan

‘Read’ a pasta dish

Talking with a Japanese friend of mine, Koji, who is a wine and food expert, I learned that there is an Italian dish called Napolitan in Japan, which I did not know that existed.

Germany

Sophisticated straw dolls

[May, 2013 ] We visited Viktualienmarkt in Munich, which is a market in which they sell good quality foods. But what caught my eye was the stalls which were selling lots of straw dolls. They…