Meeting the rare ponies
At the Castlebay Hotel where we stayed on Barra Island in the Hebrides of Scotland, the check-out time was 10:30, which was as early as a Japanese inn. Moreover, it says that it…
Barra
Seafood and whisky
We had dinner on the Isle of Barra in the Hebrides of Scotland at the hotel we stayed at. The hotel is Castlebay Hotel in Castlebay, the only town-like town on the island….
Touring the island with a middle-aged newlywed
We toured the Isle of Barra, which belongs to the Hebrides Islands in Scotland. We had researched it online and booked a taxi in advance. Actually, the driver and his son listed on…
Cave monastery
In Bakhchisarai in Crimea, there is a cave monastery, called Uspensky Monastery. There is no evidence, but they say it was founded in the 8th century. It is built into the…
Revisiting Bosa
From Alghero, where we were staying on Sardinia, Italy, we went on an excursion to Bosa, a town about 50 kilometers south. This was our second time to visit Bosa. The first time…
Lovely hotel
The Apollonian Palace Hotel in Ermoupoli in Syros was wonderful. We booked the room called Delux Sea View, which …
The Meijijingu
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. In this photo you can see Meiji shrine, one of the most important and typical tourist destination in Tokyo. It is always full of foreign tourists but...
Lapis lazuli
One of the things I was looking forward to in this South America tour was ‘stones’. Chile is the one of the major sources of Lapis Lazuli. This stone has an ultramarine...
Iberia
Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A., commonly known as Iberia, is the flag carrier airline of Spain. Based in Madrid, it operates an international network of services from its main bases of Madrid-Barajas Airport and...
Delicious Chicken Tabaka
On the fourth day of our summer holiday in Georgia, we stayed for one night in Kutaisi, the third largest city in this country. From Gori to Kutaisi, it took about...
hotels in the US are very expensive
We stayed in three hotels in the US this time. The first one was the Courtyard Marriott Downtown in Boston and the second was the Holiday Inn Express in New York and the...
Writers gather here
Friends of mine, living in Paris took us to this pub in a back street. In the past, Japanese author Fumiko Hayashi, a painter Tsuguji Fujita and etc, got together here. The name...
Lobsters in Rockport
We took a one day excursion from Boston, USA to Rockport which is about 64 km north east of Boston. We went to North Station in Boston by the subway from the...
Funicular I wanted to ride
We have visited Lisbon, Portugal several times, but we have never actually seen the funicular that I sometimes see in the pictures. That’s why I definitely wanted to ride this time. We hadn’t...
