Shopping

[ Aug.2019 ] We stayed at Poldhu Guest House in St Ives in Cornwall, the south western end of England. Because we decided to come to St Ives quite late, when we tried booking a…

[ July 2019 ] On the second day on Prince Edward Island in Canada, we were going to do the taxi tour on the island. The driver, Billy, whom we had met the day before…

[ Apr.2019 ] We stayed in “Tamachi Bukeyashiki Hotel” in Kakunodate in Akita prefecture in Japan. Their catchphrase is “the traditional warehouse-style hotel, surrounded by the black Kuroitabei (black wooden wall)”. As they say, the…

[ Feb.2019 ] The weather was lovely on the third day in Lisbon in Portugal, too. Unfortunately, because of my husband’s leg injury, we could not do much sightseeing this time, but just to enjoy…

[ Dec.2018 ] We left La Laguna, the old capital of Tenerife in Spain, which was a lovely place that exceeded our expectations and moved to Puerto de la Cruz, the second place we stayed…

[ Nov.2018 ] On the last day of our short holiday in Lincoln, the city in the middle of England, we went into a jewellery shop that had interested me during our stay. The reason…

[ Sept.2018 ] We stayed at the seaside Ryokan (a Japanese style hotel) called ‘Taikanso Senami no Yu’ in Murakami in the Niigata Prefecture in Japan. According to the information on the internet, the hot spring…

[ May 2018 ] When we were walking in the streets of the old town of Alghero in Sardinia in Italy, we noticed that many shops were selling coral jewellery. According to our guidebook and…

[ May 2018 ] When we were walking in Castelsardo, a town in the north of Sardinia in Italy, we noticed that there were many shops selling knives with sharp blades and colourful handles. The…