Stepping into the Alps
[Apr. 2023] The Skyway, a ropeway that goes up to Monte Bianco from Courmayeur, a resort area in the Valle d’Aosta region in north western Italy, costs €59 per person for a round trip. I…
Transports
Hotel and the shuttle bus
[Apr. 2023] We stayed at a hotel called Edelweiss in the village of Pre Saint Didier in Valle d’Aosta, the north western tip of Italy. If you come by bus from Aosta and get off…
To the village where there are no pharmacies
[Apr. 2023] During this year’s Easter holiday, we took a short trip to Valle d’Aosta, which is located at the edge of northwestern Italy. Actually, we were planning to go to Turkey, and we had…
Light lunch and off we went to Zafra
[Dec. 2022] After visiting the Roman bridge and the Roman theatre and stadium in Merida, a town of Roman ruins in western Spain, we were quite tired and hungry. So we decided to have a…
An overnight trip during the holiday
[Dec. 2022] During our trip to Extremadura, Spain, we were staying in Caceres, but we wanted to go to Zafra, too, which is a little further south. Looking at the map, it wasn’t that far…
To Extremadura though Madrid
[Dec. 2022] We went to Spain again, and this time to spent the year-end and New Year holidays. The destination is Extremadura, which is close to the border with Portugal. We chose here, because we…
Another thing I wanted to do here
[Sept. 2022] One of the things I wanted to do in Dubrovnik, Croatia is to take a ropeway on a sunny day and look down on the old town from far above the sky. The…
By train which is just before retirement
[Sept. 2022] Our summer holiday, staying in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy is almost ending. The next day after returning from an overnight trip to Modica and Ragusa, we went to the beach for the last time…
Holiday during our holiday, first to Modica
[Sept. 2022] During our two-week stay in Syracuse, Sicily, we travelled away for one night. In other words, it was a little extravagant, as we wasted the cost of one night’s accommodation on Airbnb, but…
