Venice day 3
Having a great time here with Burns… this was the perfect last stop for my trip… sunny beach and great people. Tomorrow I definitely have to go out and explore the rest of LA :) Here are some pict...
Posts from July 2007
Venice - first pictures
Almost over the jet lag… ended up staying awake for something like 30 hours… met up with Burns for his famous “innocent” beer… ended up going to Santa Monica pier where live music was being ...
LA!
Still awake! Stayed up during almost all of the entire trip watching movies and reading… the view going down the west coast was amazing - clear blue skies… and now at Burn’s place right on the b...
Time Travel
So… at the Tokyo Narita Airport waiting for the plane for LA. Crazy crossing the date-line… leaving here at 5pm and arrive in LA at 11am of the same day!! Jet-lag is going to be tough :) ...
Museum day in Tokyo
Yesterday I took the “day off” and just went to Akihabara to browse the electronic gadgets and play some video games. Today, thanks to Gian Pablo’s tips (friend from ITP) I went to the following...
Tokyo - Odaiba
Today I went to an area called Odaiba - a futuristic shopping and entertainment district. Some amazing buildings, lots of shopping centers, and many very interesting museums. I took some pictures and ...
I missed the earthquake!!
This is wierd… as you may know there was an earthquake in Japan today… 6.8 magnitude with epicenter on the northwestern Tokyo region… I did NOT feel it at all!! I saw on the subway that many lin...
Very interesting blog about Tokyo/Japan
Came across this blog http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/ and found it quite interesting. Was talking about all the small differences in culture, signs, behaviors and so on that a Japanese would prob...
Forgot to post this video
This video is on the Kiyomizudera Temple - the one with the dark passage way… on the way down I went through a beautiful cemetery. Legacy links from the original WordPress post ...
Kyoto pictures
So on my last day in Kyoto I went to the Sanjusangendo Temple - one of the largest wooden structures of Japan - over 100 meters long. The name actually means something like 33 spacers in between each ...