NY! I'm home :-)

Welcome to 7th Kitchen!

I am back in NY from the two week Germany and Italy trip. We did a lot during this 2 weeks and we enjoyed our vacation. I experienced, saw, ate, bike and walk a lot in this trip. I took so many pictures and I don't even know which picture I should upload for this blog. There are so many beautiful pictures I would love to share with all of you. 

Today, I just wanted to say that I am back and I would like to thank all the people who visited my blog this past two weeks despite my very few upload. I will be writing and uploading pictures from my trip next week so please come visit again to read and see more details about my trip. 

Germany trip was lots of nature. I think Germany is a beautiful country with lots of nature. We did tandem bicycle tour in the nature with our parents in Germany. It was just so beautiful. I love the colors of grass and all the sheep hanging out relaxed. We also had a lady bug attack during the bike ride. There were so many lady bugs. I think we got so much luck from this. It should last for our whole life! 

We went to Venice and Verona and surrounding area in Italy. It was hot and lots of people but it was so beautiful. Those old looking cities is just a perfect picture. It is amazing that you don't see any modern looking building in the city like Venice. It makes you feel like you have time tripped to the old era. 

Well, so many things to write and so many pictures to go through. I will be really busy next week! I hope you will come visit my blog again next week to read about my trip and I hope my pictures will bring a piece of Germany and Italy to you :-)

Munich

I was in the northern part of Germany when I had my last post but now I am in Munich. Munich is my husband's hometown so I have been here a few times already but summer in Munich is very, very beautiful. And we had a beautiful weather yesterday.

We went to downtown area and walked around, then went up to the tower to see the whole city and to a park and to Munich University. Munich has lots of green and parks are well maintained. I loved people just having picnic or having coffee and ice cream at cafe.

We passed by an area in a park where people are just lying around naked. I was so suprised to see this because we don't see this in the U.S. or in Japan.

One of my favorite places is Viktualienmarkt which is a big Farmer's Market in downtown Munich. They have fresh vegetables and it looks so pretty. I like just walking around and looking at them.

At night, we went to Beergarden to see some of our friends. Beergarden is very popular in Munich. It was full of people and everybody was enjoying their beer under the tree. I think people in Munich really appreciate nature.

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera to beer garden but I am sure that we will be going to beer garden again during this trip so I will take pictures and upload them when I am back in NY.

I will be going to Italy from Sunday and my sister is flying in from Japan tomorrow and we are all going to Italy. This will be first time for my sister coming to Europe and I am happy that she decided to come. We will be eating a lot and taking a lot of pictures in Italy. I will not be able to update my blog until I am back to NY but I am excited to report all about Italian food when I am back. Please come visit my blog again in a week and half or so. It will be filled with beautiful food pictures!

Germany, here I come

Welcome to 7th kitchen!

I am in Germany and enjoying my vacation with my in-laws.
They are in a northern island of Germany for their vacation so we came to say hi.

I have been eaing a lot since this trip has started and I took a lot of nice pictures.
But I did not have a chance to upload here. Today I finally had a little chance to write. When I come back, I will write about whole trip and upload all the pictures.

Anyway, one thing I am eating a lot here in Germany is Chanterelles. I love these mushroom but I think it is not so common in the U.S.

I had one with baked potato, with fish, with bread dumpling. I love this!
It seems like this mushroom is pretty common in Germany.