X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=64aea29760460d65a3b7b06b98a6ee0acee3f57e;hp=026581b2de65b811f3f010f9ed42c6d3fe1a8f3b;hb=117dfe30aa95ec3afba67c6940db216340fdd651;hpb=dc350970d251ed0283dc0958a264abee4974388b diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index 026581b..64aea29 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -2,9 +2,25 @@ === April 30th: Departure === +==== My father's photos ==== + +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 ==== -TODO +{{japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|The Louvre gallery viewed from 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 ==== @@ -31,6 +47,18 @@ 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 ==== + +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]]. + * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Ameyoko]] markets + * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Ueno_Zoo]] + * The Narita airport :-( + === April 29th: Back to Tokyo === ==== Hostel ====