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This planet is not lonely
Google Maps on Android, Nokia even offering offline maps for navigating abroad – who pays for all this? Well, here is an interesting idea: charge big merchants for leading you past their stores – even if it is a detour.
Yesterday we made a daytrip to Eindhoven in the Netherlands. It’s a cute little city, just 1.5 hours away from Düsseldorf. They have a fabulous Museum of Modern Art, and the Glow Exibition was still going on, which had some spectacular installation. It’s a great destination for a day trip!
Piccadilly Circus is full of Tourist Places – so I was quite pleased to find this little gem of authentic Andalucian Cusine: Andalucia Tapas 4 Panton Street London SW1 Y4DL +44 (20) 7930 9950
When I visited Boston last week for a friend’s wedding, my wife and I looked for interesting events. We didn’t get disappointed: besides attending a panel discussion with Howard Zinn on the withdrawal from Iraq and watching the Play Einstein’s Dreams, we had the honor of attending a dinner with Mr. Young-jin Choi, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. Mr. Choi was giving an enlightened talk for WorldBoston.org. I found a transcript of the talk he gave at the Carnegie Council – and below you’ll find my personal comments.
This is not a model or computer graphics – it’s a photograph of a housing project in Mexico City. Click on the picture to enlarge and see more stunning photography, taken from a helicopter.
Alex Leviton, a friend of mine who is a Lonely Planet Travel Writer, pointed out that LP is running their Bluelist contest again. Participants can become a Travel Writer for a week – interested…?
It’s been a while since you heard from us. Since our bike trip, we enjoyed Hiroshima for a few days, and are now at our last destination, Tokyo.
Hiroshima was mainly about kicking back (well-deserved after 560 km by bicyle) and, of course, the Atomic Bomb installations. Below you can read my impressions.
Maha added two essays to her pages: Hiroshima things besides the A-Bomb (like… the world’s largest rice paddle), and a page of random notes with plenty of pictures.
On September 10, Maha and I left Kyoto on our bicycles, with Hiroshima as the final destination. We took our time, enjoyed the ride and smelled the roses, and arrived safely on September 25 at our destination.
The ride was full of surprises. For one, we were cut off from civilisation – no Internet cafes on the way! Also, initially we were stunned by how urban the ride was. However, once we left Japan’s main island, we were surprised how rural (and at times stunningly beautiful) the ride was.
Maha describes the ride in detail on her pages, including the daily milage and a map showing our route – don’t miss that! I won’t describe the riding at all, but give an impression of the land we rode through. Enjoy the reading!
Our next stop was supposed to be a one-week stay at the Kyoto Kokusai Zendo, a Zen monestary. Things didn’t turn out exactly as planned – I got sick and Maha realized very quickly that the spiritual approach in this monestary didn’t work for her. So we both left early, albeit for different reasons.
Maha wrote her impressions on the monestary in her blog, mine are below. She also added a few notes about our first two days of bicycle riding – we rode over 100 km so far.
Share the first batch of pictures with us: Turkey: http://jastram.no-ip.org/gallery2/main.php/v/Travel/turkey2005/ Japan: http://jastram.no-ip.org/gallery2/main.php/v/Travel/Japan-2005/
