Shopping

[Apr. 2024] In Gjirokaster, an old town in Albania, we stayed at a hotel near the bustling city centre, where shops were lined up like a bazaar. The hotel was called Hotel Argjiro. It seems…

[June 2023] After a trip to not well known towns in the Tuscany region of Italy, we returned to Florence. Our booked Freccia Rossa from Florence was just before 7pm, and we had a few…

[June 2023] As expected, San Gimignano, a tourist destination in the Tuscany region of Italy, was very crowded. A wine festival was being held while the place was overflowing with tourists, making it even more…

[Feb. 2023] On the second day in Yokohama, Japan, the sun was shining and completely opposite of the bad weather of the previous day. And it was warm, too. If we had planned this trip…

[Jan. 2023] After reaching the summit of the Sierra de Francia, a scenic mountainous area in the province of Salamanca in western Spain, we visited La Alberca, which is said to be a typical village…

[Sept. 2022] As I mentioned before, the folk dance costumes we saw in Dubrovnik in Croatia were really cute. So I searched online and went to a local shop that specialises in embroidery such as…

[Aug. 2022] On the first day we started ‘living’ in Syracuse, a town in the south eastern part of Sicily in Italy, we went shopping at the wet market. Crossing the bridge from the new…

[April 2022] After enjoying the museum in Chiprovtsi, a carpet-weaving town in northwestern Bulgaria, we returned to our hotel. I wanted to buy a kilim woven by the owner of the inn, Ilya’s mother, as…

[Apr. 2022] Taking a break from sightseeing in the old town of Plovdiv in Bulgaria, we went to a souvenir shop. It was a shop where crafts were rather messily placed in a shop that…