Throughout our journey, my father also took [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto|plenty of shots]]
with his video camera.
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==== How to spend 8 hours in Paris ====
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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?
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"?
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==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ====
On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as