Category: travel
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Weekend: Waiting for a Plane
Saturday night ended up being a strange affair, I guess. I wrote this in the notebook and I have no idea why. I should carry it around more often, just so I can make notes. It’s getting harder to drum up memories. After leaving that disappointing Supanova, I decided to rejoin Staples and Elmo at…
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Last Notes from the Train Station
It’s been a week since I made any updates. Time to wrap this Japan business up. I’ve been back for a week, slowly re-adjusting to work and sleeping in my bed. Here is something I wrote on the last day before taking the train to the airport: “I’m early for my next train by about…
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Tokyo Experience
Tokyo was something extraordinary. It’s a city that never seems to end or sleep, at least where I stayed in Shinjuku. There are only a few notes on paper about this part of my trip. The main reason is that you find another person on the road and you tend to hang out a bit.…
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Today in Tokyo
Okay so my trip to Tokyo was becoming a mixed affair. I was spending most of my time with another traveler, a Portuguese fellow named Gonçalo, who was spending the last days of his trip in Tokyo as well. The shopping here for toys and related stuff was overall much better. The food was good.…
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a place that echoes the end of the war in the Pacific and the beginning of the cold war and threat of nuclear annihilation. The museums and the monuments all bespeak this. But this is only where those monuments are. If you walk around the city, you would hardly have guessed that none…
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Taking a Break
Taking a short break and I found this television show on called “Dero!” The premise is that is basically a game show run by a character with a paper bag on his head who puts contestants into a room where they have to solve puzzles or be killed by the deathtrap in the room. Kind…
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Fukuoka
To get to Fukuoka, I rode the Shinkansen, which is the best example of mass transport I have seen so far. Not just because it’s a train that maglev capabilities and that it does a normal speed of about three hundred and twenty kilometres per hour. But because the thing is dead quiet and the…
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The Last Days of Osaka
My last two days were spent in Osaka going after two things, checking out the Osamu Tezuka Museum in Takarazuka and giving Nipponbashi a thorough search for something I wanted to get myself and as gifts for others. Travelling out to Takarazuka was intersting at least. It sits near to the outskirts of the city…
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Osaka Day Three – Nara
I headed out to Nara today and I was horribly late. I originally planned to go to the Osamu Tezuka Museum, but it’s closed on Wednesdays and sadly I mistook that for Tuesday. So today was about hitting Nara and I wished that I got up earlier. I unlocked the power of my JRail pass…
The Screaming Wall 