X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=164fcb6efa1d9a0527a6fcc0134227d969bb7293;hb=40383142bdbff3366112bca9994b09fe6ec246b4;hp=026581b2de65b811f3f010f9ed42c6d3fe1a8f3b;hpb=dc350970d251ed0283dc0958a264abee4974388b;p=wiki.git diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index 026581b..164fcb6 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -2,9 +2,25 @@ === April 30th: Departure === +==== My father's photos ==== + +Throughout our journey, my father also took [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto|plenty of shots]] +with his video camera. + +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Tokyo/Ueno_Zoo/00214.jpg|Traditional wind socks for the children's day|maxwidth=640}} + ==== How to spend 8 hours in Paris ==== -TODO +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|The Louvre gallery as seen from the Seine|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright}} + +Our flight from Narita arrived at Charles de Gaulle at 4AM, and the connecting +flight to Florence was at 1PM. Could we spend all this time sitting in the terminal? + +No way! My camera's battery was gone, but my father took some photos of [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris]]. + +For the first time in my life, I had a really bad impression of Paris. Coming from Tokyo, +any place would seem very dirty, but in this case the garbage was real, abundant, +and smelled intensely of alcohol, urine and vomit. Perhaps April 30th was a special "drunk men day"? ==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ==== @@ -31,6 +47,20 @@ I'm hoping to release 4.0 soon. Tags: [[tags/stuff_that_matters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/as_simple_as_possible]] [[tags/but_no_simpler]] + +==== One last day in Tokyo ==== + +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Edo_Museum/00007.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright|The huge pavilion of the Edo Museum}} + +We gathered all our left energies for a //tour de force// of a bunch of touristic +locations highly recommended in our guide: + + * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Edo_Museum]], along with a wonderful + temporary special exhibition of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka]]. + * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Ameyoko]] markets + * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Ueno_Zoo]] + * The Narita airport :-( + === April 29th: Back to Tokyo === ==== Hostel ==== @@ -98,7 +128,7 @@ guided hiking tour with the monks, which sounds really cool. **UPDATE**: ouch! -{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/00026.jpg|Ouch!|maxwidth=640}} +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Nikko/Nikko_Park_Lodge/00026.jpg|Ouch!|maxwidth=640}} ==== Morning: Zenko-ji ==== @@ -162,14 +192,14 @@ In the evening, we headed to [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Nagano|Nagano]], a city === April 24th -- over 1 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megametre|megameter]] by train ==== +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Hiroshima/00085.jpg|The A-Bomb peace memorial near the epicenter|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright}} + **UPDATE**: the report for [[blog/2009/April#kyoto-higashiyama|April 21st]] is now available! We left our comfortable hostel in Kyoto early in the morning for a second Shinkansen ride of 360Km, this time on the faster [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomi_%28train%29|Nozomi]]. The one-way ticket was "just" 10,250円, equivalent to $105 or €80. -{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Hiroshima/00085.jpg|The A-Bomb peace memorial near the epicenter|maxwidth=480}} - Unlike Kyoto, there aren't many sites of historic interest in Hiroshima because, quite unsurprisingly, every building in the city center is at most 64 years old. With [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial|one notable exception]].