Memories of Paris - 2011-06-12

Second day on Paris started. Was able to sleep pretty well although was on the floor. Finished the day before very tired. So after a good sleep, time for a good breakfast. We went to a Tunisian place to eat something that don't remember the name. But was nice, its flavor was like "churros" but with a diferent shape.

When we finished to have breakfast, started another walk arround diferent places of Paris.

With also time for a sweet mint tea before lunch.

After lunch, and get our's strength back, we continued our walk that finished in the Eiffel tower.

Then we were a bit hungry, so was time for a break and had a mid afternoon snack.

After that, was still very soon to have dinner and had visited all the main places of Paris. So to spend time we decided to go to take a look to a new underground line that Bernat heared that the design of the stations was diferent of the usual. But at last were normal stations... The most special of that line is that trains didn't have driver. This is the only one a bit diferent, with a lot of vegetation in it, like a rainforest:

And later was time to had dinner. I chose one plate plate more typical of the south of France than the north, le Cassoulet:

Was delicious! And the dessert was:

Yes, crêpes. Can't left France without try them. After dinner still visited more places, this time Sacré Coeur and Louvre at night.

And that was the last we did that day. Later came back to home, very tired , to sleep.

Memories of Japan - 2010-08-09 - 4. Cooking and singing

The second night in Japan and the first night in our new hotel finished, so we woke up. Man, this hotel was a palace compared with the previous one. Besides, we had free breakfast! For breakfast there was some oriental and occidental food. So I tried a bit of all.

After breakfast was time to go out to visit Asakusa. When arrived there, we were taking a walk arround all the souvenir stores near the Sensoji temple and later in the temple complex. There I praid to have a great travel with my friends. We also looked our fortune and finished we three of us with bad fortune... but we tied our papers and our bad luck went away :)

We spent all the morning there, so when we finish the visit was time to have lunch. For lunch we decided to try an okonomiyaki's place when you had to cook your food. The final result doesn't seems an okonomiyaki but was nice, and fun.

After lunch we went to the Ueno park. When we finished to visit some of the temples in the park, we went to the lake. There Laia did one of the biggest discoveries of the travel, Suika soda! Soda with watermelon flavor. Is very very nice! But before that great moment of the discovery, my three friends took a boat in the lake and I prefered took a walk arround the lake. Then was when I was assault by a crows flock. Luckily was able to run away alive. Also remember that there, the cicadas made a lot of noise.

Later we left Ueno park and went to the Tokyo University. They have a lake inside the university! In my faculty was hard to find more than 3 square meters of grass... Also saw the main building. Was nice to see after saw it a lot in Love Hina manga.

After that... Yokoso Akiba!! My first time in Akihabara. Was very exciting! We took a fast walk, don't have much time, and went to have dinner in one of the cheap restaurants that there are there.

And later... yes, after that long day still had energy for more, karaoke time! We had a lot of fun singing. These drained all the energy that remainded in us, so after that came back to the hotel to sleep.

I'm back

After a long hiatus I'm writing a new blog entry. Not much hapened in last months, the most interesting was a trip through some southeast asian countries. I uploaded a lot of pictures on my flickr and will write some entries about it.

Today also went to watch castells. For today, Minyons anounced two very dificult castells, but after try one of them, 3 de 10 amb folre i manilles, in the first round and don't be able to achieve it, then they tried some easier. Was a shame, hope that they can do another 3 de 10 very soon :)

Memories of Paris - 2011-06-11

Two weekends ago I was in Paris to visit my sister that is there now doing nothi... I mean in an ERASMUS. So like I'm doing with my trip to Japan (promise that will continue Japan posts soon) I'm going to remember the memories of my trip to Paris.

All starts early in the Morning, about 7 o'clock I arrived to the Barcelona airport. There I had breakfast with Rider while was waiting check in to the plane. Then, after a flight of about 2 hours I arrived to Paris airport. There I waited until she and her couple came to pick me up.

Then we went to their house by car. When we arrive, was time to have lunch, so we enjoyed one of that roast chicken that my parents said that was so tasty. At the end was only a normal roast chicken XD

After lunch, time to vist some places. We took a one day metro ticket but didn't use it too much, so we had a very long walk. Here some pictures that I took during the walk.

After that, time to come back to my sister's palace to have dinner. Wait, I said palace? Well let's say that is a very small cozy place ^^. When finished, time to go out again to visit more places. Didn't have to waste my time there. This time we went to visit Eiffel Tower at night.

After that was definitive time to go to sleep. So we came back to their house, that tomorrow would be another very busy day.

Memories of Japan - 2010-08-08 - 3. Cuteness, hamburger and walk to Shibuya

Our first full day in Japan starts and we wake up in our disastrous first hotel. Luckily, the following hotels was all good. Everybody picked up their baggage and I took some pictures of our room. Bye bye horrible hotel, hope don't see you again.

Our first night room.

After that, we went to our new hotel. Toyoko inn if I remember well. This time was a western style hotel with normal beds, but too much better than the other one. Well this really seems an hotel, the other one... I can't define. We left our baggage there and went out. Still was too early to do the check in. So we went to Asakusa to find a place to have breakfast. And we found a little coffee shop where, after our first tries to communicate, enjoyed delicious pancakes.

Enjoying pancakes.

After breakfast, went to Harajuku. And there, we found our first, and more mythical, kawaii store, Kiddy Land. We spent some time in the seven floors of this big store full of cuteness. Later, we went to visit Meiji Jingu shrine. We spent our time there until was time to have lunch.

Meiji Jingu.

To have lunch, we went to Jonathan's. That's the place in the world where I ate the best hamburgers that I tasted. Totemo Oishiii~ And while my co-travelers chose more conventional drinks, I tasted Melon Fanta. Was very sweet! But tasted good.

Lunch at Jonathan's.

After lunch, we decided try to go from there to Shibuya walking. Was fun. We stopped in a music store, with lots of floors, too. In the anime section was playing "No, Thank you!", the second K-ON!! ending. That is maybe the song that I listened more in this travel. We also stopped in a clothes shop that had One Piece posters outside.

A clothes shop on our walk to Shibuya.

After walk some time, we arrived to the mythical Shibuya crossroads. We took some pictures of the crossroads and some more of the Hachiko statue. Later, finally was time to go to the first manga and anime related place, Shibuya's Mandarake. I enjoyed a lot walking through bookcases with lots and lots of manga. There I also found some figurines and nendoroids hard to find with expensive prices. But I bought nothing that day.

Shibuya.

After Mandarake's visit, was time to have dinner. We went to a typical Okinawa restaurant but without knowing it. Later, the waiter, that was very nice person, explained to us. Also explained and suggested some plates to choose. We enjoyed of a bit expensive but very good dinner.

Enjoying our dinner at a typical Okinawa restaurant.

After dinner, was time to come back to our new hotel. We still had to do the check in. After that, we went to our rooms. I checked my mail account, took a shower and watched TV a bit while the other people also checked their mail. And when everybody finished, bed time. Oyasumi!

Memories of Japan - 2010-08-07 - 2. There's no way Japan can be this hot!

After an uncountable number of hours flying in a plane, we arrived to Narita airport. Finally were in Japan! A new day just started and we were exhausted, couldn't sleep too much at plane. After the controls and pick up our baggage, we went to exchange some euros for yens. Later go to take the train that took us to the Ueno Station. And now finally in Tokyo!

At train to Ueno.

We came out of the station and... What's this heat!? We just discovered hot Japanese climate at summer. With lots of hours without sleep and with an insane heat, we went to our first hotel in Tokyo. It was situated at North of Asakusa. We arrived, left our suitcases and went to have lunch.

Our first restaurant in Japan.

Our first lunch in Japan was in a small restaurant that almost all that they only had was yakisoba and takoyaki. Well, actually they also had some other "yaki" things. All was delicious, our first meal in Japan!

After lunch, we took a walk for the surrounding area near the hotel. Were waiting that was time to do the check in. We visited some shrines in that walk, knowing nothing about them.

One of the shrines near the hotel.

When was time, came back to the hotel. And when went to our rooms, discovered some problems in them. In one, the shower didn't work, and the other had leaking water on the ceiling! Well, we went to claim and they offered move us to another hotel, but from the next day. We accepted it and came back to our rooms to take a shower.

Mapo Tofu!

Later, we went out again. This time took a walk through Asakusa. Looked for a place to have dinner. And that dinner was special, because was the first time that I tasted Mapo Tofu! Yes, when I saw it, couldn't choose another plate. So I enjoyed a lot my spicy Mapo Tofu.

After dinner came back to the hotel. And finally, after lots of hours, was time to go to sleep.

Memories of Japan - 2010-08-05/06 - 1. Flight to Japan!

Some of you know that last summer I was in Japan during 3 weeks. Me and my co-travelers thought about write a blog about our travel. In the end, we only wrote a few days. Some days ago, when I was watching pictures of this travel, I thought that would be a good idea write some of my memories of the travel in my new blog. For this reason today I start this new section, memories of Japan.

In this entry I'll write about two days, the day before the flight and the day of the flight, 5th and 6th August.

5th August. Is the last day before to travel to Japan and I haven't pack my things yet! Until the evening I didn't start. Well, my intention was that the case went nearly empty and came back full of things. So I put some clothes and things that I needed and in not much time I was ready.

Later, Pau came to take me to his house. We had to be in airport very early in the morning, so we spent all night playing Wii with the rest of the group, Laia and Gemma. And wasn't too much time.

Having breakfast and waiting for the flight to Frankfurt, at Barcelona airport. Can you spot the eggplant?

After some hours, we went to the airport. There we had breakfast and passed the controls before took the first flight. This flight, where we had breakfast another time, brought us to Frankfurt.

The airplane that brought us to Narita, an Airbus A380, at Frankfurt airport.

In the Frankfurt airport we wait some more hours for the flight that definitely brought us to the Narita airport. The plane of the flight was the great A380. I think that is the bigest plane in the world.

Views from the window of the plane.

During this second flight, I tried to sleep a bit, but I couldn't. Maybe was that was a bit nervous. And always when I could start to sleep, they brought us something to eat. We had dinner and breakfast in this flight, before arrive to Narita.