X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=425865cd0f13611aa6761e1b29e370a0da02429e;hb=9cfb5192436949407cf723efbb33b7808d9d2230;hp=27b49b0994087111e94624da8cf3bca14873af57;hpb=e29c9ea55a0fd5c11034bad1132e8f853df819aa;p=wiki.git diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index 27b49b0..425865c 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ 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 ==== +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|The Louvre gallery as seen from across 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? @@ -18,8 +22,6 @@ For the first time in my life, I had a really bad impression of Paris. Coming f 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"? -{{japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|maxwidth=800}} - ==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ==== On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as @@ -46,7 +48,9 @@ I'm hoping to release 4.0 soon. Tags: [[tags/stuff_that_matters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/as_simple_as_possible]] [[tags/but_no_simpler]] -==== Last day in Tokyo ==== +==== 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: @@ -124,7 +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 ==== @@ -188,14 +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]].