Lombardy
Castiglione Olona and the Alpini

Castiglione Olona and the Alpini

This winter in Northern Italy was full of rainy days, which made me gloomy. We had just moved from gloomy England to Italy, where everyone think it has bright sunshine. So, on occasional...

Capri

This time, a taxi tour

New Year’s Day on the island of Capri in southern Italy. After getting off the tourist boat, we thought we’d have a coffee at a cafe, but the only shop open was not…

Capri

We did not plan to go, but..

It was a nice day for New Year’s in Sorrento, southern Italy. So, although we hadn’t planned on going to Capri, we went. It may seem disrespectful to Capri, which is ranked 14th…

Sorrento

Year-end excitement

We went to Piazza Tasso, the central square of Sorrento, southern Italy on New Year’s Eve. As expected, a large crowd was gathered there. Loud, beat-heavy music was playing, but by around 11:30,…

Japan

Sushi in Kanazawa was exceptional

I went to a sushi restaurant in Oumicho market in Kanazawa called Genpei. I have not eaten sushi as good as this for a long time! Especially the seasonal firefly squid was fantastic….

Lombardy

A monastery flattened against the rock

In this trip to Lake Maggiore, the one I wanted to see most was this monastery.It is called Hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso and it is stuck to a big rock.The…

Bulgaria

Saving its traditional craft

We came back to Sofia, where we started our tour. Having whole afternoon, I went to the Ethnological Museum. Bulgaria is famous for its embroideries or lacework, and you can see very nice…

miranda-friends
Miranda Friends

Moscow-USSR-2

This is my friend, Tarcisio’s posting. When we started our stay, they gave us our group itinerary, which included our free days to do whatever we wanted. But we were allowed to move around only...
shopping
Shopping

Moldavite

I continue talking about my second visit to Prague after 19 years. Last time I noticed only a few suvenir shops, mainly selling glassware or wood craft things, but this time I...
airlines
Airlines

Lufthansa Airlines

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or simply Lufthansa) is the flag carrier of Germany and one of the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried and fleet size. Lufthansa was founded in 1926 in Berlin (the name was...
food
Food

meat dish in Solferino

I saw a weird photo of a wall with many skulls on a website and found out that it was in a town called Solferino which is not too far from Milan...
hotels
Hotels

Alcázar is now a hotel

Next in Zafra, a town in western Spain, we went to Alcázar. Alcázar means a castle or a fort, and our guidebook describes it as a “castle”, but it seems more appropriate to...
food
Restaurants

Bath and Dinner

  On the first day of our holiday in Tbilisi in Georgia, we went to have a bath in the hot spring bath house, as we had booked after 6pm. There are...
food
Food

Simple Lunch on the Seashore of Anaga

Anaga Natural Park in Tenerife, in Spain, is as large as 14,419 hectares. There are over 120 kinds of endemic plants and animals there, apparently. The jugged mountains are the centre of...
transports
Transports

sea and donkeys in Lindos

In Lindos, the old town in Rhodes in Greece when we arrived at the top of the hill where the Acropolis was, we could see the magnificent view of the sea. On one side, we...