さよなら!

It's come the day. Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Barcelona. My journey from Tokyo to Okinawa has been obviously great. Highlights were Okinawa and the white sand beaches and Mount Aso and its green boiling stuff. Kyoto, Nara, Okayama, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kagoshima, Sakurajima... 'tis been something. However, and this is very sad, somehow all the pictures taken and stored in the 1.0 GB card are gone, over 600. Some of you were perhaps waiting for them... So bye to all the pictured memories and people I met along the way. They're all in my head anyway, and that's the important thing. Anyway, as the 250 card seems to work perfectly I kept some pictures of the first day in Kyoto. I'm posting here the most typical and touristy one: the Golden Pavilion.

This might be the end of this blog as well I guess. I should relaunch it when I come back here, 'cos I'm coming back. Dunno when. I had an interview with an architect at the Shibaura uni today and he found the theme for my intended research interesting and has no problem in taking me as his tutoree and writing a letter of acceptance. That's great, but I need the money now. Anyone willing to finance my thesis on Tokyo Urban Voids?

Ozeano Barean...

Bihar amaitzen da bidaia bidaia barruan. Hots, Tokiora bueltan nihoala eta larunbatean Bartzelonara. Lasaitasunez ari naiz, izan be Okinawan nago, are zuri eta ur urdin argiko paradisua. Gaur hondartzan egon naiz, bakar-bakarrik. Topikoegia ezin da izan, baina ossssso gustora. Bihar, joan baino lehen, berriro be uretan murgildu eta eguraldiaz gozatzera, 4 egunetatik bitan bederen eguzkiak bisitatu gaitu ta.

okinawa here i come!

Me'n vaig de Tokio per 10 dies. Passaré per Kyoto, Nara, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kagoshima i l'illa-volcan de Sakurajima per a acabar a Okinawa, on romandré per 4 dies abans de tornar a Tokio. A veure si em fa bo.

basku, hai, passport?

Egun eguzkitsua gaurkoa, baina baita haizetsua be. Lorentzu inguruan ibili den bitartean, no problemo, baina gero hau hotza! Irudian ikusten denez haizeak txirringak bota ditu, eta txirringak ezezik iragarkiak eta motorrak be bai. Haizeari esker baina, Asakusako complejo hotelero, barkatu, templeroaren kanpaiek izpiritu txar asko uxatu dituzte gaur. Entzun nahi badozue, klikatu irudia.

inside, outside

So today I climbed these towers, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government towers. Great views from the 45th floor, both inside and outside. The first view I'll let you name it. The second is the world famous Fuji-san... or the intuition of it. Both are videos.

On the other hand, it seems like I've taken the somehow weird custom of encountering German people on the heights. Remember the episode with Wolfgang Becker? Right, so up there I am looking out of the window trying to guess Mount Fuji in the distance, when a woman with a big reflex camera adresses me in German: "Der ist da!" (she was refering to Fuji) and so on. So I started to chat, whether I thought that it was easier/clearer to see Mount Fuji in the morning, whether I knew or didn't the opening time of the towers... and so on. Do I have a German face or what?