Category: Travel

Travel

Barlingen International Folkdance Festival (1)

I can’t believe this is 1month ago already…It’s about my trip to Germany. Our Shishimai website also updated more detailed stories and pictures, check it out! As I hadn’t performed Shishimai since I came to London, I was so looking forward to joining them in Germany this time! I was thinking of joining them in Frankfurt as the members flied to there, but decided to go to Stuttgart and meet them in Balingen as the flight was not early in the morning…well, I mean, more efficient. It was the first time for me to go to Germany! It was only […]

Foods, Travel

Switzerland Day3

OK, I know I’m writing about long time ago… But I never give up! This is for my own record! So this is Switzerland Day3. We went to a city called Montreux which has really beautiful scenery, next to the lake. The lake was soooo large that it looked almost like the sea. After having a lunch, we moved Lusanne. This city looked more similar to England, it looked like shopping area. Although we walked to the Cathedral, it was over 30 degrees and so hot!!! No more walk. After that, we went to Gruyères. It is the birth place […]

Travel

Spain Day4

This is the last entry of the trip to Spain. The last one day trip was to Granada! Althuugh we wanted to see Alhambra, there was a restriction of the number entry already! Unfortunately we couldn’t get inside. So…I had no choice but took a picture from outside. Ok…this picture looks a bit too dark… But the area we walked around looked amazing, it was so fun to talk around. It seems there is a history of arabic culture as well, looking around the shops was also fun. It was the first Spain trip for me, but it was amazing […]

Art&Exhibitions, Music, Travel

Portugal Day3 / Aaron Koblin

Portugal day3 = Offf day 2. The first talk I saw on that day was by Aaron Koblin. I had seen his works sometimes, but didn’t know his name, so it was so surprising I could hear his talk in Portugal. He visualise the information using the Processing, and also does experimental projects related to “Wisdom of Crowds”. The promotion for Radiohead is also popular. The talk was maintly about these issues. 1. Visualising information. There are many kinds of “visualisation”, but he uses things like the record of searching query, or flghts records and I find interesting that make […]

Travel

Switzerland Day2

It is the Switzerland Day2. We went to Jungfrau, which I heard the highest mountain in Switzerland. We went to the bottom of the mountain from Interlaken by car. (I don’t remember the name of the station… I can’t remember as I couldn’t pronounce it!) Unfortunately we couldn’t go to the top, but the scenery was amazing~~~. It was Switzerland! Mountain! What a scale! The ice cream I had there was so yummy~~~. Eating an ice cream, having a walk, we had a sandwitch lunch watching the mountain and the sky. It was such a nice time. After returning to […]

Travel

Spain Day3

I finally finished my disseration! I’m free! And, oops, I was writing my blog in Japanese but have been lazy for the English version… now I have to catch up. So, this is about the trip to Spain, Day3. We went to one day trip to Sevilla. It is a capital city of Andalucia…it’s huge! But the buildings of pastel colours looked so European. Walking around, we arrived at Santa Cruz area. Narrow passages look so pretty. For the lunch, I tried gazpacho yummy! I liked its light taste, and I love tomato! After that, we went to the cathedral. […]