England

Emirates Air Line

I have known that the ropeway was built over Thames in east London for some time, but I have not had any occasions to visit this area, so I haven’t tried it…

Slovenia

The church

After climbing up the wall of Piran in Slovenia, on the way back, I saw a nice photo of a beautiful cloister. So we went in the church there. It is the…

Slovenia

Dear old Piran

 The driver of the taxi we took from Muggia in Italy took us to Piran in Slovenia, living up to our request “somewhere nice in Slovenian side”. There are nearer towns like…

Slovenia

Border

On the day when we went to Muggia in Italy, we wanted to go over the border to Slovenia, so tried to find out how we could do that. As the person…

Italy

Painted woman’s restaurant

In Muggia in Italy, which is close to the border to Slovenia, we went in to a restaurant called Lilibontempo. Muggia is a fishing village and there seemed a lot of seafood…

Triest

Lovely fishing village

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

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…

Triest

Concentration camp

In Trieste, there was a Nazi concentration camp.This was the only one in Italy with the crematory.It is called Risiera di San Sabba and it was originally a rice threshing factory.Naturally it…

Triest

Miramare Castle

This castle situated outside of Trieste in Italy is facing the sea and looks similar to “Swallow’s Nest”, a castle in Cremea Peninsula in the Black Sea.This Miramare Castle was built by…