X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=84a399dc013d94638a2875c5f3dc65ea640f12c4;hp=21945933f5a4267b582e6065e03be2386996bff3;hb=7a60f6ac9d18ec3680d610b5217d9c317a26b9f7;hpb=7f1f9751fd989988b80dfb4a9b1649bdfe9ff220 diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index 2194593..84a399d 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -7,13 +7,20 @@ 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 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 ==== @@ -43,8 +50,10 @@ Tags: [[tags/stuff_that_matters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/as_simple_as_possible]] ==== 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: +{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Edo_Museum/00007.jpg|maxwidth=640|class=thumbleft|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: * The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo_Again/Edo_Museum]], along with a wonderful temporary special exhibition of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka]]. @@ -119,7 +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 ====