In November 2019, I took a tour to some countries of former Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. There were few tourists due to the off-season on the Adriatic Coast. It rained almost every day. It rained heavily while we …

I took a relatively cheap tour to India in 2009. We visited three cities, Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur. I flew by myself to the airport in Delhi, where I met an Indian guide. He spoke Japanese and took care of us well. He always spoke to some y…

TV channels are flooded with information on the novel coronavirus. My parents watching TV every day are now specialists and use some technical terms. There are few people in the streets. People wear masks everywhere. Some of them look like…

In November of 2016, I traveled to Las Vegas. I took Air Canada. My first and last name were reversed on the reservation, but I was allowed out of pity to take the flight. I transferred at Vancouver. I arrived in Las Vegas on the same day …

(Continuing from the last text) I visited the Acropolis Museum. It had the same inspection machine as the airport. The staff member told me that I could keep my purse and cellphone. The metal detector went off as expected, but I was able t…

In December of 2017, I traveled to Greece. After checking the weather three days before the start of my vacation from work, I decided to go to Greece where the weather would be nice. I took Emirates because the tickets were cheap, and ther…

I traveled to Istanbul in January, 2014. It took twelve hours with a direct flight with Turkish airlines from Narita Airport. It was winter, but I didn’t feel cold when I wore the same clothes as in Japan. I stayed at a hotel in the histor…

I took a five-day vacation in August. After checking the weather, I decided to travel west. Using the ticket “Seishun 18 kippu”, I took a local train. Even though I took the first train, it was already afternoon by the time I arrived in Ko…

In February, I traveled to a city called Siem Reap in Cambodia during my five days off. I chose this city because the weather was supposed to be nice. I bought my plane tickets and booked my hotel five nights before my departure. I had two…

Last December, I had a one-week vacation. I wanted to travel to a place I had never been to, but because of the terrorist attack in Paris, our company prohibited us from visiting France and any countries in the Middle East. In time, Englan…

At the beginning of November every year, the world cup of street performers convenes in my city. Many artists come from all four corners of the earth. They perform everywhere in the city. All the performances were free, and it was up to us…

In December 2014, I traveled to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. I was finally able to take a vacation, so I made a reservation for a package of airline tickets and hotels on the internet two days before the departure. I intended…

We used to have two labradors, Laura and Mark. Laura was a white female. She was intelligent. She was able to sit, lie, stay, heel, jump, and go fetch something according to our order. She could also understand a lot of words. She hated sh…

At the end of July, sunflowers were in full bloom. I bought a train ticket named “Seishun 18”. It’s available five times. Each time, you can take local trains as many times as you want within one day. I made a day trip either to Tokyo or N…

At the beginning of July, I traveled in Tohoku (northeastern part of Japan), the region that was hit by the big earthquake three years ago. On the first day, I went to the city of Hiraizumi by Tohoku Shinkansen (a bullet train). Hiraizumi …

At the end of May, I took a picture of a bird with my new camera with an optical zoom of 83 times. At the beginning of June, I visited a rose garden. There were roses with various colors. The rainy season started in June, and hydrangeas st…

I went on a tour of the northern part of Kyoto Prefecture and Himeji City in Hyogo Prefecture. First, we cruised in Ine Bay, which is famous for houses standing on the sea that have garages full of fishing boats. Many birds, such as sea gu…