‘Old Town’ of Oslo in the museum

…with reindeer Regarding religion in Norway, according to the museum leaflet, the last Catholic Archbishop left Norway in 1537, 20 years after Martin Luther published his theses against the practice

Row of houses in Kawagoe

…30 old warehouse style houses, which was impressive. This place was not created for tourists but they were there originally. I could see that because the road they faced was…

Along the river

commemorative photo taken on a hill along the Douro River. As I learned at that time, the old wooden boats lined up in the river were rabelo boats that used…

Happy Mandrogi

come back. Now, it is a proper village, so people not only work for the theme park for the tourists, but they live here too. Our tour leader introduced this…

Ryokan with Sunset and Murakami Kibori Tsuishu

…only in Murakami. On the first floor, two young people were learning the craft. They are being trained full-time to become professional. Apparently, they learn carving and painting on separate…

My experience of Covid vaccination

…where people being vaccinated So I was not 100% happy, but the only way to get out of the inconvenience caused by Covid-19 was vaccination, and I had no choice…

Though the view was disappointing

[Dec. 2024] During our winter holiday in Sorrento in southern Italy, the wind had finally died down and the weather was decent, so we went to Sant’Agata, which is said…