X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=425865cd0f13611aa6761e1b29e370a0da02429e;hp=fe23955868fcd8bfbcad3c87186b8dd9297a33c0;hb=ec971165518e6a3d9fb45edac14aa1f4da55e559;hpb=b7f108f6c3735bf91936b562313bab20080a61e7 diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index fe23955..425865c 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ with his video camera. ==== 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? @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ 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=thumleft|The huge pavilion of the Edo Museum}} +{{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: @@ -192,14 +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]].