Our main purpose, Oban
On this tour to the Scottish Highlands, our main purpose was to visit the port town of Oban. This place is said to be the “Seafood Capital of Scotland.” When we came here…
Highlands
Revisited the Highlands
The day after we returned to Glasgow from Barra Island in the Hebrides of Scotland, we went on a one-day tour of the Highlands. This is a tour run by a travel company…
Airport and the flight on the way back
It’s almost time to say goodbye to Barra Island in the Hebrides, Scotland, where we spent the night. We took a bus to the airport from the Castlebay bus stop. The flight was…
Akihabara
I have not come to Akihabara in Tokyo for a very long time. Although it was a rainy day, we had a walk here in April. As before, there were myriads of adverts…
A tuk-tuk tour here, too
On the second day in Oporto, a town in northern Portugal, we booked a tuk-tuk tour around the town. This is the second time to have a tuk-tuk tour after Lisbon a few…
Palacio Barolo – Part 1
In the centre of Buenos Aires in Argentina, there is an unusual building called Palacio Barolo. When we visited here during our city tour, we were interested by it, so we decided…
Kabuki show
This is my friend, Bangly’s posting. During my stay in the small town of Kotohira, in Japan, I had the opportunity to see a Kabuki show, thanks to my friend Shogo’s help. This...
The man who studied at Tokyo University of the Arts
There were some stylish shops in Valparaiso in Chile. I bought this Chrysocolla ring there. Chile is famous for its Lapis Lazuli, but they have other stones related to copper, too, like...
JAL Japan Airlines
JAL Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) (Nihon Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha) is an airline headquartered in Shinagawa, in Tokyo, Japan. It is the flag carrier of Japan and its main hubs are Tokyo’s Narita International Airport and...
Meat, entirely
This is a restaurant I went in Evora in Portugal.In this country, the starters are brought to you without your asking them, which I experienced in Porto in the north of Portugal, too.They...
This is another bliss
We visited Yuwaku Onsen, about 50 min.bus ride from Kanazawa, Japan. The ryokan (Japanese style inn) we stayed was called Kanaya and our room was in an annex. I was very surprised to...
At the table with the view
We made a reservation at a restaurant called L’Antica Fonte in Certaldo, a town in the Tuscany region of Italy. In the town of Certaldo, the new town is spread out on flat...
Feeling Happy With Good Seafood
We went to a restaurant listed in our guide book in the small fishing village of Latchi in Cyprus. There were not many tourists around at this time of the season and restaurants...
Modern metro
The metro in Madrid was modern compared with ones in London, Milan or Paris.The trains themselves looked relatively new and there are no graffiti like Milan trains and felt brighter than the ones...
