[October, 2011] I went to Lake Garda in Italy again.When I went there earlier this year, it was stormy weather, but this time the sky was wonderfully blue.In Desenzano, the antique fair was on and…

[September, 2011] It was a sunny day in London, which is rare. I was sitting at the window seat and just about arriving at Heathrow. This does not happen so often, so I took out my…

[September, 2011] In the centre of Kiev, there is a big underground shopping centre. Most of the shops there seemed the franchise of western European chain stores, but we found some Ukrainian jewellery shops and enjoyed…

[September, 2011] There was a concert hall in front of the hotel we stayed in Kiev. If possible, we wanted to listen to some live music, so we went to the box office. After a lot…

[September, 2011] The scenery we saw many times in Italy or Spain was here in Kiev, too. A lot of locks on a rail in a park on the hill in front of our hotel. On…

[September, 2011] The escalator at metro in Kiev is endlessly long. The metro must be running very deep place. When we went up the escalator I felt a phobia. Because it is so long that…

[September, 2011] Regarding the Cave Monastery in Kiev which I wrote about the other day , once I understood that this complex was started with a cave, and that is why it is called by…

[September, 2011] In Kiev it seemed not very many restaurants which you can have a good meal easily. Restaurants may be the place only for the special occasions for people there. Every restaurant had decorative…

[September, 2011] One of our purposes of this trip to Kiev was to see a ballet performance in the National Opera House. Kiev ballet company used to be one of the top 3 companies in Soviet…