A saint called Mungo
On our short trip to Scotland, on the last day we took a walking tour of Glasgow. It started at 10:30am from George Square. Our guide, a lady named Liz, spoke clearly and…
Glasgow
The last place was Glencoe
On our one-day Scottish Highlands tour, the first stop after lunch was Stalker Castle. However, just like 13 years ago, we only looked at it from a distance. Last time when we saw…
Our main purpose, Oban
On this tour to the Scottish Highlands, our main purpose was to visit the port town of Oban. This place is said to be the “Seafood Capital of Scotland.” When we came here…
Hungary, local market 2
Another picture of a local market in Keszthely.
Old fashioned shop
This is a photo of a shop in Bergamo.It is obviously not a chain store.It has been there for hundreds of years and both shop owners and customers know each other closely.There are…
Sightseeing on the last day in Zaragoza
On the last day of our three nights stay in Zaragoza in Spain, we visited La Lonja. This is another building facing the big square called Plaza del Pilar and it used…
Moscow-USSR-4
This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. There were some small things that impressed me in Moscow, because things were different from the west: One of these was that the newspapers were basically free and a...
The Atmospheric Hotel and The Historic Miso Shop in Kakunodate
We stayed in “Tamachi Bukeyashiki Hotel” in Kakunodate in Akita prefecture in Japan. Their catchphrase is “the traditional warehouse-style hotel, surrounded by the black Kuroitabei (black wooden wall)”. As they say, the...
American Airlines
On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day,...
About the wine here
Melnik, a village in the southwest of Bulgaria, has long been known as a wine-producing region. Many of the traditional houses in the village have wine cellars, and Hotel Slavova Krepost, where we...
One night in Tokyo
To enjoy Tokyo thoroughly, you had better have a room in a hotel in the centre of Tokyo.This time, I stayed at Shin-Takanawa Prince Hotel.There are many hotels around here.I used the shuttle...
seafood in Bristol
We went to Bristol, a city in south west England just for a short holiday. It was the first time for me. Since my husband went there and said it was nice,...
Seafood on the lake shore
On the day I went to Lake Iseo in north Italy, I had seafood lunch.It is not quite right to eat seafoods on the lake shore, but it was excellent, so I wanted...
Metro
This is a view inside a metro.I cannot remember which line it was, but it seemed a new carriage with colourful stripy seats.It was a nice surprise that I could use the tickets...
