Hiya, yeah, I'm still alive and kicking but have had no time to form any coherent blog entries.
To the news:
1) I'm going to Osaka in April
. I'm hontoni hontoni ureshii!! For 8 nights. I'll be in Osaka for most of the time but Kyoto and Nara are in plans as one-day trips both.
*learning Japanese...(or trying to)...in truth...a bit* This has accounted for some of the being-busy situation.
2) I was in Vilnius last week for 3 days and made some pics. All in all the trip was fun, even if I would have preferred more time for exploring on our own, they had most of our time filled with (kinda weird) stuff. It was a company bonus-trip, so it figures of course. But I did manage to nip 1.5 hours before we boarded the bus to drive back (yeah, that was DEATH! 10 hours there on Thursday but 12 back on Saturday because we had to drop of my colleagues in Tartu...and Pärnu...and only then was it Tallinn) and visited my penfriend Starlin's home street and got pics done at her house
. It was sad we could not see since you're in London, Star!!
All in all we walked through the Old Town a few times when we went eating, went to the bookfair (to my utter happiness they had a Japanese box!!! My heaven!), then for 2 hours to the biggest mall in the Baltics, Akropolis (that was boring since I was not out to shop), then 40 km out of Vilnius to see a work thing that does not concern our work directly but I guess they thought it was interesting...hmm..
. And then to Trakai, which we could not get in since we came too late, so we strolled around it and went back. The next morning we went with a colleague to hunt for Starlin's house, came back on a trolleybus(! - we were so happy to have experienced real life in Vilnius too
) and took the bus back to Tallinn through all those other places
.
But onwards to the pics:
My phone takes nice pics in sunshine but bad when it's cloudy and horrible when it's dark but I had to put this up to show to Star that I was here
!
Vilnius University
Archcathedral
Cathedral tower
Old and new, new and old!
It looks good, better than it does in Tallinn.
Gediminas Tower
Bookfair and the Japanese Foundation box, I was totally saved by this box since the others were not horribly interesting if don't know Lithuanian. Most perfect was the exact part of Totoro that they had playing...
...."siin ka pole!"...
Now to the lovely Trakai:
And to last but definitely not least to Kanjani fans - Trakai has very colourful buildings....that form a Kanjani Street of Ryo's, Uchi's and Okura's house side by side.
Lol, the roof if pink, btw.
Hmm....
Nice, I should have looked for the
Master Key under the doormat.
Look here, Star!
Oh, and pretty much the last thing I saw and went nuts from excitement was the realisation that I had the door to Osaka under the hotel window...now why did I not use it!!???
Comments (2)
Looks like you had an adventure. I love those brightly colored houses. So, are you learning to like sushi? I know that that's not all they eat in Japan, but you can't pass it up while you're there. ;) Speaking of anime, have you ever watched anything by Satoshi Kon? I just finished watching his Paprika. It's one of those excellent, mind-bending movies that take a few viewings to understand, and even then, you're always changing your mind about what it means. His other movie that I really liked was Perfect Blue, though that one is rather disturbing, too.
@Feanariel - Hehee, the Kanjani houses are truly rofl!
Sushi is good, my friends can make it, so I have eaten it the most of Japanese food, along with onigiri (rice balls with different fillings).
I have seen Paprika but did not care for it much, it was ok and well, deep, but to me the drawing style is the utmost and was even more so then, so I craved for more prettiness :D. *is shallow in this respect*
I am going to write a reply to your mail too but I have been working and tired after the trip :).