Ishigaki Island

Two Italian restaurants on Ishigaki Island

[ Apr.2017 ] While we were staying on Ishigaki Island in Okinwa, Japan, we went to two Italian restaurants. One was called Il Pozzo. When we were walking on the back streets in the Ishigaki…

Venice

The restaurants before and after the opera

[ Apr.2017 ] On the day we saw an opera at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy, before the opera started at 3:30 pm, we had lunch. We saw a restaurant just in front of…

Venice

Revisiting the restaurant in Murano

[ Mar.2017 ] We took the Frecciarossa, the fast train, from the Central Station in Milan to Venice. The last time we were in Venice was one and a half years ago. This time we…

Winchester

Lovely meal in a historic house

[ Mar.2017 ] At the weekend when the weather forecast was good, we went to Winchester from home in London by train. On the way, we had to change the train at Reading whose station…

Italy

Nice restaurant in the suburbs of mysterious Pomponesco

[ Feb.2017 ] We went to Pomponesco in the north of Italy which belongs to the association of “The most beautiful villages in Italy”. In our experience, the villages of this association are really beautiful, including Asolo,…

Olhao

Olhao

[ Feb.2017 ] On the last day of our short holiday in the Algarve in south Portugal, we went to a seaside town called Olhao. The Portuguese pronunciation is difficult. The taxi driver pronounced Olhao…

Santa Luzia

The capital of octopus

The last destination of our Tuk-tuk tour in the suburbs of Tavira in Portugal was Santa Luzia; a fishing village situated about 5 km west of Tavira. The Tuk-tuk driver, Tiago told us that this…

Faro

Getting up very early to go to Faro

[ Feb.2017 ] We got up at 3 am again, this time to go to Algarve in the south of Portugal. Every time we say that we must not plan like this, but because of…