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diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April
index cdbf046..026581b 100644
--- a/blog/2009/April
+++ b/blog/2009/April
@@ -2,19 +2,23 @@
 
 === April 30th: Departure ===
 
+==== How to spend 8 hours in Paris ====
+
 TODO
 
 ==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ====
 
-On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add goodies such as
+On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as
 
- * a grid view for photos
- * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs
- * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3"
- * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which you can use to create thumbnails floating on the right or left
+ * a grid view for photos;
+ * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs;
+ * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3";
+ * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which I'm using to produce
+ floating thumbnails on the side of pages without resorting to HTML
 
-These should make the wiki markup much lighter.  As usual, these additions resulted in
-simplification of the codebase rather than code bloat :-)
+These new features will make my wiki markup even lighter than before.
+Moreover, these additions actually resulted in further //simplification//
+of the codebase rather than code bloat.  Way to go!
 
 {{{
 git diff --stat v3.0..HEAD geekigeeki.py
@@ -22,14 +26,27 @@ geekigeeki.py |  709 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)
 }}}
 
-If you see any regressions in the output, please report them to me.  I'm hoping to release
-4.0 soon.
+If you notice any regressions in the output, please report them to me.
+I'm hoping to release 4.0 soon.
 
 Tags: [[tags/stuff_that_matters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/as_simple_as_possible]] [[tags/but_no_simpler]]
 
 === April 29th: Back to Tokyo ===
 
-TODO
+==== Hostel ====
+
+After one last tour of the [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/town]], we left from Nikko in
+with a low-cost private line (2h40, but only 1100 Yen all the way to Asakusa).
+
+We had just one evening and half of the next day to spend in Tokyo, so we quickly dropped
+our luggage to the [[http://www.tokyo-ih.jp/en/index.html|Tokyo International Youth Hostel]],
+a sort of nazi camp with a great view on the 18th floor of a high-rise building in Iidabashi.
+
+==== Akihabara ====
+
+Because there was a strict curfew at 11PM, we had to take the metro during the rush
+hour ([[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/metro|photos and videos]]) to reach
+the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara|Electric Town]] ([[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Akihabara|photos]]).
 
 === April 28th ===
 
@@ -50,15 +67,15 @@ One would expect to grow bored of Shinto and Buddhist temples after seeing many
 all over Japan, but visiting the Nikko temple area was once again an extraordinary experience.
 And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too!
 
-{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=800}}
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/world_heritage_site/00096.jpg|maxwidth=640}}
 
 === April 27th ===
 
 ==== Afternoon: travel to Nikko ====
 
 Nikko is in an adjacent valley east of Nagano on the Japanese alps.  Unfortunately, no train lines
-and busses connect them directly, so we had to take an expensive -- yet very fast -- Shinkansen
-detour all the way down to Saitama and then up again.
+and buses connect them directly, so we had to take an expensive -- yet very fast -- Shinkansen
+detour all the way down to Saitama and then northbound again.
 
 Once at the station, we immediately realized it was a good deal, after all.
 This mountain town overflows with temples, world heritage sites and statues of Buddah