==== How to spend 8 hours in Paris ====
-{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|The Louvre gallery as seen from the Seine|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright}}
+{{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?
=== 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}}
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**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}}
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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]].