X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2FApril;h=84a399dc013d94638a2875c5f3dc65ea640f12c4;hp=27b49b0994087111e94624da8cf3bca14873af57;hb=7a60f6ac9d18ec3680d610b5217d9c317a26b9f7;hpb=e29c9ea55a0fd5c11034bad1132e8f853df819aa diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April index 27b49b0..84a399d 100644 --- a/blog/2009/April +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ 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? @@ -18,8 +22,6 @@ For the first time in my life, I had a really bad impression of Paris. Coming f 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"? -{{japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|maxwidth=800}} - ==== GEEK UPDATE: A productive flight ==== On the flight back to Europe, I spent some time hacking on [[GeekiGeeki]] to add little goodies such as @@ -48,6 +50,8 @@ Tags: [[tags/stuff_that_matters]] [[tags/!bloat]] [[tags/as_simple_as_possible]] ==== Last day in Tokyo ==== +{{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: @@ -124,7 +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 ====