[January, 2012] The last destination of the one day bus tour from London was Salisbury Cathedral. Here you can see one of the original copies of Magna Carta which was signed in 1215 ( I…

[January, 2012] Our main purpose of joining the one day bus tour from London was to visit Stonehenge. It takes time and money to get here on your own using the public transport. There is…

[January, 2012] Bath in England is well known as a city founded by Romans, but it was only 18th century when it became a centre of fashionable society. Around this time the town was rebuild completely…

[January, 2012] The bus tour we joined started at around 9 am and came back to London at around 6:30pm. It is a full day tour and the first destination was world famous Bath. I had…

[January, 2012] This theatre was built and used when The Scala in Milan was closed for renovation in 2002.Now The Scala is open, but this one is still used as a proper theatre.I went to…

[January, 2012] We listened to Fado for the first time. It was in a restaurant called Clube de Fado in Alfama area in Lisbon. I had thought that Fado was always heavy and sad, but…

[January, 2012] On the last day, we took a hop-on-hop-off sight seeing bus in Lisbon. And I learned that the bull fighting in Portugal do not kill the bulls. Also, I leaned that in Portugal…

Years ago, when I visited Portugal for the first time, I looked around for Castella, the cake which is popular in Japan and believed to be Portuguese. But the castella look-a-like cakes were lemon cakes….

[January, 2012] Then, we came back to Lisbon where we had started our journey. This time we stayed in a hotel on the hill called Olissippo. The classically decorated room was nice and spacious, but…