Italy

View

[ May, 2014 ] After we went out of the town of Volterra in Tuscany, Italy, we found a space where we could park and see the view. It was already early evening and the…

Italy

Ancient Roman theatre

[ May, 2014 ] In Volterra in Tuscany there is a fine ruin of an ancient Roman theatre. You can see it from the cliff at the edge of the old town. I looked up…

Italy

Palio

[ May, 2014 ] This was the second time for me to visit Volterra in Tuscany of Italy. This time we saw a lot of flags all over the town. According to the pizza restaurant,…

Italy

Alabaster

[ May, 2014 ] The ‘clothes’ on the photo look quite real, but you cannot wear them. Volterra in Tuscaly in Italy has been famous as a source of Alabaster since ancient Etruscan time. Alabaster…

Italy

Etruscans

[ May, 2014 ] I remember learning about Etruscans in the history class at school long long time ago. Apparently they were the people who lived in Italy before the ancient Roman Empire. Their main…

Como

Excursion to Como Lake

[ May 2014 ] On a very sunny Saturday, we went to Como Lake from Milan with a young family.It is an most convenient resort from Milan, which takes just over one hour by car.The…

Milan

China Town

[ May, 2014 ] I walked in the China Town in Milan in Italy for the first time.They call it China Town, but there were not brilliant gates like in London.Just many Chinese shops were…

Triest

Lovely fishing village

[ Feb.2014 ] We went to Muggia from Trieste by ferry.Muggia is even closer to the border.Fortunatelly, we had a very good weather and the view with fishing boats, fishermen, fishing nets and so on…

Triest

By ferry

[ Feb.2014 ] The weather was fine on the third day of our stay in Trieste in Italy.We decided to go to Muggia, a fishing village which is even closer to the border.We arrived at…