Oh...hanami
If you are able to spend some time in Japan in spring, like I did, try to be there end of march or even better beginning of April. Depending on which part of this country you want to see, the cherry...
Train Stories - An out of world experience
It was friday night and a crowd of overenthusiastic teens and twens reminded me that I am in Germany. I was travelling with the local metro system to go to my brother's place. I wasn't surprised since...
The Japanofiles - a Podcast by Dave Carlson
What do you do for your body? For the last few weeks I have been running on a regular basis to take part on a race in the town where I live. A 10 km run I have never done in my life.
To keep on learning...
One Day in Tokyo - Part Two
Spending some hours in Japan's capital is easily done. I already had a look at Ginza, the most expensive place to rent in Tokyo. I ate Kaisen Chirashi at Tsukiji, the biggest fish market in the world...
My Day in Tokyo - Part One
Located on the Island of Honshu, Tokyo is the capital of Japan with about 32 million inhabitants in the greater Metropolitan Area. For me it's not only a must visit destination but my childhood dream...
I woke up this morning and realized that
-even if I have to visit a customer 35 minutes from my place
-I first have to go to the office, which is in the totally contrary direction in order to
-take trams and trains for almost an hour to get to the place I should’ve went in first place
-and afterwards go back to the office
Anybody recognizes how inefficient my day’ll be??
It can only get better!
Half a year passed and I got an e-mail telling me diazan.com would be shut down if I didn’t renew my contract. So I renewed and thought I should use it!
A lot changed and I had to postpone my plans to move to Japan due to unexpected circumstances. My next Japan-Experience might not be before 2011 but I’m totally looking forward to it.
See you soon,
Andrés
Have you ever heard of Jean-Claude Van Damme? The guy that in the ninetees had so many action movies like you have pair of socks? Ok, you won’t have so many pair of socks. He was the cool fighter that helped the good looking woman, or the poor guy that lost everything or one of those typical stories that makes us think: yeah! beat that bad guy! And Steven Seagal? The martial arts god that would break so many legs and arms of his enemies in each of his movies that we always wanted to try that by ourselves but thought it might hurt? That was the moment we learnt that human body has 200 bones! Did you know they are both Japanese!??
