Giardiniello-An Italian restaurant at Minori

The third day after arriving my hotel, Villa Scarpariello, located near Ravello, a part of rhe coast of Amalfi, I decided to take a walk to visit Minori. It is not so far. It only takes me 25 minutes to go to there. Before I left the hotel, I ask one staff working there which restaurant is the best at Minori. He said," You wanna enjoy Italian food?" to me. I replied Yes. Without a consideration, he recommanded that the stuff of Giardiniello is worth to taste and eat and then gave me a brochure about Giadiniello. According to the upside photo, it seves pizza and wine. Actually, it also serves salad, spaghetti, beer, and other local delicacies. The down one shows pizza, one of my lunch. Does Pizza must be a circle? The answer is No! The ingrediants of this one are quit simple, only pizza cake, cheese, fresh tomato source and vegetables, but it tastes delicious. It is quit different to American style pizza, such as Pizza Hut, with lots of stuff. What? You ask how many people can share this pizza. The menu tells me that this one is for two people. However, it can serve for four. Can you imagine how big it is? If you are interesting in this ristorante(restanrant in Italian), you can mail to rist.giardiniello@amalfinet.it for more details.

Minori

Along the southwesturn coast of Italy, there are many small towns, such as Positano, Amalfi, Salerno, with a beach. Minori is one of them and its scale is smaller than Amalfi and Positano. In the right picture, you can see a belltower, a characteristic building in all towns along the coast of Amalfi. Behind the belltower, there is a church, another characteristic construction belonging to towns along the Amalfi coast, under reconstruction. Someone may ask why not to post a picture to show this town and its beach. I select this photo to illustrate the common characters, belltower and church, of all towns which I visited there along the coast of Amalfi. In the next post, I will indroduce a wonderful Italian restaurant located in a small street of Minori. Please be patient.

Limoncello

I knew this product from Passport to Europe, a program of Discovery Travel and Living Channel before I begun my trip to Italy. According to the indroduction on that show, it tastes sweet and smooth. It sounds like Ice wine. So, I decided to taste it by myself. Limoncello is a local alcohol product of southwestern coast of Italy. It is made from alcohol, suger, and lemom and looks like a beautiful yellow translucent liquid. This liquir is best served cool in iced glasses. Befroe drinking, I seem to sniff the aroma of fresh lemon. After swallwing, it tastes sweet with lemon flavor, smooth but its texture is similar to spirits. It's a great experience that I can not forget during my trip to Italy. Therefore, someone plans a trip to the southwestern coast of Italy and I will strong recommand her/him to taste Limoncello. Why? It's worth to give a try due to its sweet flavor with light aroma of fresh lemon.

Last night in Hokkaido

They were built by my friend and his friends, engineers of SE, in the garden, located in front of the hotel we stayed. I missed this chance to build them because I stayed in my room. It was a little pitty to me but my own decision. However, my friend ever went back to grap something to build these two snowmen and told me that I can go to appreciate their work if I am interesting before he left the room. Therefore, I decided to join them to make a snowman. It was too late to join them because they had done works, as shown in the right photo. To shoot a photo was the only thing that I can do there. Of course! It is impossible that I only took this one.

Schloss Neuschwanstein

I get the picture from google because my digicamera is still in Europe. Does it look beautiful? For more photos, you can click the above link to visit the official web site. Schloss Neuscheanstein was built by King Ludwig II, the last king of Bavaria. It's also the prototype castle on Disney animation, Sleeping Beauty. Schloss Neuschwanstein locates in Schwangau, a small town near the border between Deutschland and Austria. In its neighborhood, there is another castle, called Hohenschwangau. It is not as beautiful as Neuschwanstein. But, it is still worth to visit. Near Schloss Hohenschwangu, there is a lake called Alp ( Alpsee in Deutsch). The scence along the lake is also worth to appreciate. If you finish your Schloss tour there, do not miss the Lake Alp. Ops, I forget to introduce the word, Schloss. It means castle in German. Ok! After pointing the focus there, I should explain how to get there. First step is to get Muenchen (Munich) and buy a DB (Deutsch Bahn, means German Rail) ticket to Fuessen. As you arrive Fuessen, you can find the shuttle bus to Schwangau. To take that bus, you can get there, conduct some information at i, and then find several pathways to go to Schloss Neuschwanstein. You can choose a way you like depending on your budget. Moreover, it's necessary that you have to buy a ticket, get there in time, and the staff working in Neuschwanstein will allow you to visit the inside. If you want to know more information, please contact its web site.

火口湖

在登別熊牧場展覽館頂樓照的，叫啥我也不記得了，反正就是照下來了，也算是親眼見到一個過去只在書上看到的名詞。這張照片被果人一個教國中地理的朋友要去，雖然不知道用途為何，也只能大概猜猜可能是為了教學上的舉例吧！雖然這照片不怎樣，但慶幸總還有一點做為教育上的價值和貢獻。

雪地上的屍體遊戲

這沒啥！純粹只是蠟筆小新看太多的後遺症。但說真的，在雪地上仆街幾秒鐘後，沒戴手套的雙手就覺得快凍僵了，跑去洗手間洗手也沒用，因為水也很冰。還好，購物中心有放幾台電暖器，把手靠過去一會兒就好了。沒有凍傷，算是好的。反正，這種無聊的事情別再做就好了。O_0

札幌的街頭

左圖是在上班時間照的，地點在札幌舊官廳附近。除了氣溫低一點、光禿的樹枝、語言不通、女孩子臉上都畫了妝之外，基本上這個城市上班的狀況跟台北市沒兩樣。大家都在往上班途中移動，對照出我這個悠閒的死觀光客，沒事照人家上班時間的街景。說真的，在舊官廳停留的時間很短，也無法待到開放的時辰，能照的都照了，所以只好把眼光放到街道上。o_Oa

至於那些被我當成照片主角的人們心裡會怎麼想，我實在沒底。我猜啦！其實大部分的人是不會注意我這個觀光客在做啥的。因為，有誰會無聊到注意街邊有個死肥ㄆㄧㄚˇ在照相，而主角正是自己？

函館山夜景

北海道之行的最後一站。聽說世界上有三大夜景：函館，香港和拿波里。那我就算看過其中一個了（另外一個下個月要去）囉！左邊的照片大約是傍晚四點半以後照的，因為數位相機爛，所以再晚照的照片都看不出來山下的燈火夜景了。只有這張勉強不及格，但至少跟我買的明信片接近。我想，如果我有一台可以調光圈和曝光時間的相機，那就可以照到更棒的照片了嗯！這裡真的很適合有伴的人去，可惜果人只有一隻而已，我的朋友全都有伴了。只好在那座山上東找找西晃晃，照點不一樣的東西，看看上面的紀念碑長點常識罷了。

冬天的洞爺湖

這張是從溫沙公爵飯店房間照出去的，跟五個人說有四個不相信。去年跑去北海道玩，照了些風景回來。這張聽我朋友的評論是：可以當桌布的照片。我倒是覺得普普啦！洞爺湖是日本第三大湖，也是緯度最高的不凍湖。因為水深夠，所以冬天不結冰。由於是在清晨拍的，恰好適逢北海道好天氣，所以可以從這張照片看出北海道的優點所在--真是個適合人居住的好地方。有人問果人，何時去北海道最好？我想了想，回了他一句話：四季風情話。我想，下次應該改成夏天去北海道，而且要自己去，別跟團。跟團好累啊！STO

計畫

啊................好想年底出國玩，上週跑去誠品，買了三本有關北海道的旅遊書。