Food

[ May 2019 ] The last place we visited during our family holiday in Akita prefecture, Japan, was a sake brewery. It was called Suzuki Sake Brewery, which makes Japanese sake called “Hideyoshi“. We chose…

[ Feb.2019 ] There was one another place I wanted to go to while we were in the Belém district in Lisbon, Portugal, which is about 6km west of the city centre. It was the…

[ Feb.2019 ] On the second day in Lisbon in Portugal, we had a private tour to Sintra, which we had booked before coming to the country. Sintra is about 30km northwest of Lisbon and…

[ Dec.2018 ] During our winter holiday in Tenerife in Spain, one day, we went to Tacoronte in the north of the island from La Laguna, by bus. According to the health application on our…

[ Dec.2018 ] 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…

Standard Method for making Japanese Green tea. Put tea leaves in the teapot. Pour hot water into the teapot over tea leaves. Soak a while, then pour th tea out into teacups. Please don’t leave…

[ Sept.2018 ] Murakami city in the Niigata prefecture in Japan is not huge, with a population of only about 60,000 people, but there are many famous products. One of them is salmon. We visited…

[ Sept.2018 ] We visited Murakami City in the Niigata prefecture with our friends who live in Niigata city. On the day, it was raining hard in Kanto, where we started, and we wanted to take…

[ July, 2018 ] 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…