Greece

Volcano festival

The day we arrived in Santorini happened to be the day of their Volcano Festival. Fireworks were displayed from the small volcanic island of Nea kameni situated opposite of the main island….

Greece

An eccentric hotel

In Santorini, we stayed in a hotel called Aroma Suites in Fira town. This is the photo of the room. As you can see here, it is a room like a cellar…

Santorini

Arrive at Santorini

In our summer holiday in Greece, next day after arriving at Mykonos, we left for Santorini. It took about 2 and a half hours by speed boat. I had been worried about…

Greece

Stranded

This summer we had a holiday in a few islands in Greece. First, we landed on Mykonos. Because it was already dark, we planned to take a taxi to the hotel. But…

Italy

Ravioli festival

The last destination of our short trip in the north Italy was Rovetta.We had leaned online that they were holding Bertu Festival on this day (17th August).Bertu is a kind of ravioli…

Lombardy

Vigorous singing

We had a bit of time to get to the last destination, so we popped in to a town called Clusone in the north Italian mountains.The flat land was very quiet as…

Lombardy

Caravaggio

This is not about the famous painter, Caravaggio.The painter apparently spent some time of his early days here, but the town of Caravaggio had been there before him.The famous thing here is another…

Lombardy

Appearance of Virgin Mary

This is a photo of Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Misericordia near Castelleone in north Italy.We came across this church while we were driving and stopped to see it as it looked…

Lombardy

Fireworks

The day we went and enjoyed on Lake Maggiore was 15th August.It is a holiday in Italy called Ferragosto, which commemorates ascension of Virgin Mary.We leaned that they had fireworks in Laveno,…