=== April 30th: Departure ===
-TODO
+==== My father's photos ====
+
+During the journey, my father also took [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto|plenty of shots]]
+with his video camera.
+
==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ====
-On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add goodies such as
+On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as
- * a grid view for photos
- * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs
- * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3"
- * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which you can use to create thumbnails floating on the right or left
+ * a grid view for photos;
+ * automatic generation of human-readable link tags from wiki URLs;
+ * a common parser for argument lists such as "foo|bar=1|baz=3";
+ * the ability to specify css style for links and inline objects, which I'm using to produce
+ floating thumbnails on the side of pages without resorting to HTML
-These should make the wiki markup much lighter. As usual, these additions resulted in
-simplification of the codebase rather than code bloat :-)
+These new features will make my wiki markup even lighter than before.
+Moreover, these additions actually resulted in further //simplification//
+of the codebase rather than code bloat. Way to go!
{{{
git diff --stat v3.0..HEAD geekigeeki.py
1 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)
}}}
-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]]
+
+==== Last day in Tokyo ====
+
+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:
+
+ * 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 :-(
+
+==== 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 ===
-TODO
+==== 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 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 ===
==== 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
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