今日の小さい散歩
Seeing as we’re posting Titles in funny languages I reckoned I might do some in the language which holds some relevance to the (sub)title of this blog.
Like I mentioned I’d go out today if it didn’t rain
It didn’t rain
It snowed
Short term: This doesn’t get you as wet
Long term: You’re still wet and cold
Crap, are you ever still wet and cold. Damn
So, the geographical layout of where I live with regards to transport is: We have a trainline. There’s also local busses and those black flat things that cars use. Not directly relevant to me, ergo: We have trainline.
Every morning I take it south. Osaka 行き.
But north it holds mountains . . or at least I hope it does. Today I went to the hills, well other hills. I took the train north until I saw something I liked. I ended up in Sasayamaguchi (篠山口).
Off the train it took me 5 minutes to find a walking trail.
Excellent.
Now, I mentioned the snow. Did I mention the wind?
So, euhm yeah: cold.
Anyway, I managed to get off the train next to this little park. Perfect for hiking. Except for the fact that it’s closed outside of the main season (summer). But, not caring about silly little rules like that I set out. Many pretty pictures followed. I wish I had some direct sunlight though. That’d help in some of these. I had little 3 second-bursts of it, never enough to get the camera all the way out of the bag though. Anyway, pictures are here
It being cold and all I took the 3 hour trip and decided to call it a day.
Have I mentioned it was really, really cold.
Enjoying a hot tofu-naba meal in a local restaurant I sat there urging blood to return to my nose. In the background there was the Ishigaki Marathon on TV. Marathon, commercial, marathon, commercial, some nice music.
No wait, still marathon. Huh, is that lyrics coming by on screen?
Dutch sport-reporting comes down to endless yacking by the commenters. Here they turn it into a Karaoke. Gotta love the Japanese.
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My karma ran over your dogma
- Ancient Buddhist saying.
(well, pretty old at least)
Hi Wally,
How are you? I red you enjoy your time and I very happy for you. In Tokyo tha situation is always tha same
every friday the italianjinteam, spanishjinteam and some polishes have a fixed meeting in roppongi.
I hope to come to meet you soon or late, meanwhile I say you good luck for everythings
ciao,
Claudio
Hehe, I read up on your blog every once in a while. Babelfish really turns normal stories into funny little things that beg to be interpreted incorrectly
Hope you are doing well, and that your internship (because that’s what you came here for . . .right?) is as interresting as the friday night european parties :p
For other readers wanting a different account of people in my program. Claudio is one of the other participants and other than clicking on his name in the comment above from here the link is found on the right of the screen (Called Space Samurai). Even if you can’t read italian it’s worhth going there for the background music. Other participants links are called:
Pawel’s Vulcanus experience
Robin’s Site
The Fair Maiden
I suppose I should link some of the others eventhough they are all in languages you can’t understand. Considering Robin, Fair maiden and Space samurai are all in equally baffeling languages namely Dutch (gasp), French and Italian.
hihihih… my internship goes very well. I’m very happy for my collegues and for my project so i can’t complain about that
)
Till now I had to study a lots about the technologies used in this field of computer science.. so a lots of hours spent in front of a monitor to read manuals, tutorials and source code!! but now i have started to develop something so it’s more interesting and the working hours passes quicker
This weekend me and other vulcanus people went in Hokkaido for Yukimatsuri.. very nice experience!
On the blog photos and comment (in italian of course
all the best,
C.