Valle d'Aosta

Good looking fortress

[April, 2023] Valle d’Aosta, the north western tip of Italy, is famous for its many old castles. On the second day in Aosta, the region’s capital, the weather forecast was not good, but we went…

Valle d'Aosta

Nice hot spring

[Apr. 2023] The purpose of our visit to Valle d’Aosta, the north western tip of Italy, was to visit the hot spring. The village where we stayed overnight, Pré Saint-Didier, has a famous spa. Its…

Lombardy

The story that our rental car was towed

[Mar. 2023] I’m not talking about the trip itself this time, but have you ever had the experience of a parked rental car disappearing the next day? It happened to us. While staying in Seregno,…

Italy

Ballet at Teatro Lirico

[Mar. 2023] The topic of ballet continues. In March, we saw “Giulietta e Romeo” at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, Italy. It was our first time to visit this theatre. It is located near the…

Emilia Romagna

Visconti village

[Sept. 2022] We went on a day trip from Milan in Italy to a village called Grazzano Visonti in Emilia-Romagna. Speaking of Visconti, it is the family who had great power mainly in Milan in…

Syracuse

Visiting a mansion on the last evening

[Sept. 2022] We spent more than two weeks in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, but now it’s finally the last night. On our usual evening walk, when we came to Piazza Duomo in Ortigia, we found the…

Syracuse

Large catacombs

[Sept. 2022] On the last day of our summer holiday in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, we went to see the catacombs that we wanted to see and had not done yet. This is not in Ortigia,…

Sicily

People who makes the traditional carts

[Sept. 2022] After visiting the Baron’s family in Ragusa Ibla, a historic town in Sicily, Baron Arezzo took us to a traditional cart workshop. This workshop, Cinabro Carrettieri, is the final stop of the tour….

Sicily

Visit a Baron family

[Sept. 2022] We visited the Baron family in the historic town of Ragusa Ibla in Sicily. It sounds grand, but in fact it’s part of the tour. But it was the Baron himself who showed us around….