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+++ 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 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?
+
+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 ====
 
@@ -26,19 +42,41 @@ geekigeeki.py |  709 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
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-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]]
 
+
+==== 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 ====
+
 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 went 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.
+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 ===
 
@@ -66,8 +104,8 @@ And I could finally spot a few [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko]]s too!
 ==== 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
@@ -90,7 +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 ====
 
@@ -154,14 +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]].