Switzerland

Winter resort started here

St Moritz is the birthplace of winter resort. In winter this place is crowded with fashionable people including some celebrities, but in May, it was very quiet. Some of the hotels, restaurants and…

Switzerland

The train listed as a World Heritage

Bernina Express is the train listed as a World Heritage, starting from Tirano in Italy to Chur in Switzerland.According to the brochure, it runs along 122 kilometres of track, passing through 55 tunnels…

Lombardy

Assorted ham and salami

We had a very light dinner, a glass of red wine with assorted ham and salami in Tirano, the border town between Italy and Switzerland. The red one on the right is called…

Lombardy

Austrian Room

The starting point of this trip, whose main purpose was to take trains, was Tirano , a border town between Italy and Switzerland.I booked a room in a hotel in front of the…

Italy

Seafood on the lake shore

On the day I went to Lake Iseo in north Italy, I had seafood lunch.It is not quite right to eat seafoods on the lake shore, but it was excellent, so I wanted…

Lombardy

Quiet Lake Iseo

We went to Lake Iseo , one of the lakes in north Italy. This one is not well known as Como or Garda and had wilder atmosphere, maybe because of the bad weather….

South Korea

Namdaemun, the ultimate market

 Before leaving Korea, we went to Namdaemun Market in Seoul. We have seen many shopping area in Korea by now, but this was the ultimate one. In one leather shop, when I said ‘oh,…

South Korea

Jump!

We went to a theatre to see something called “Jump!” in Seoul. It is a comedy with Kung-Fu  performance. My sister loves it and this was her second time to see this. It…

South Korea

Korean BBQ, again

We went to eat Korean Barbecue in Seoul again this year.It was a bigger restaurant than last year and Japanese tourists were coming in one after another.They came to pick us up in…