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 ==== My father's photos ====
 
-During the journey, my father also took [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto|plenty of shots]]
+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?
+
+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 ====
 
@@ -34,10 +48,12 @@ 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}}
 
-With our last energies, we went on a //tour de force// to quickly visit a
-bunch of Tokyo touristic locations that were highly recommended by our guides:
+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]].
@@ -45,14 +61,6 @@ bunch of Tokyo touristic locations that were highly recommended by our guides:
  * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Ueno_Zoo]]
  * The Narita airport :-(
 
-==== How to spend 8 hours in Paris ====
-
-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]]
-with his video camera.
-
 === April 29th: Back to Tokyo ===
 
 ==== Hostel ====
@@ -120,7 +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 ====
 
@@ -184,14 +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]].