Category: photos
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Surfing in Shonan
I’ve got a new hobby. One of my friends with whom I went snowboarding in Hokkaido this winter lives in 湘南 in a cool house 300m from the beach, right in front of 江ノ島. Since the last month I go surfing there almost every weekend. I can check the weather / wave size on Yahoo!…
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Additional flash
You never see a photo taken with the flash on in my flickr photostream. That’s because I hate flashes, and my GR Digital‘s flash in particular: it burns everything. So yesterday, as I was on a day-off and had nothing else to do than watching season 2 of House M.D. and browsing flickr, I got…
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Shibuya at 4am
A friend of mine is leaving Japan tomorrow, coming back to his girlfriend in France after 1 year here. So we had a little sayonara pub crawl for his last weekend in Tokyo. We started out in 高田馬場 and took one of the last trains to 渋谷. Hopped around 5 different bars and izakayas until…
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Shiodome 42nd floor
This weekend, a good friend of mine invited me and his girlfriend to dinner for celebrating his yearly bonus. We went to the Oregon Bar & Grill, on the 42nd floor of the Shiodome City Center. The dry-aged charcoal-grilled steaks were extremely good, but came with just a small piece of mashed potatoes, nothing else.…
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Not missing everything
Maybe I missed the drunken parties under the さくら, but I still got to see cherry blossoms in Tokyo before leaving for China. Here are some photos that I took around 表参道…
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Back from China
So I’m back from China and it wasn’t as bad as my colleagues led me to believe. Of course, I stayed only 5 days there and he spent 4 months. I doubt I could’ve stayed sane more than 2 weeks over there. Anyways, it was cold, filthy, totally disorganized and did I mention it was…
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Kani-shabu
What’s better than the snow in Hokkaido? The food of course! Every time we’ve hit the restaurants over there, it was like we were discovering a whole new level of Japanese food. Say to a Japanese person you ate 蟹しゃぶ (crab legs splashed in boiling soup) in Hokkaido and you will see them shed a…
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The wonders of mashups
Not much to talk about this week. Working a lot, preparing some business trips for next months. So I thought I should show you a little gadget that I’ve been playing with for almost a year now. I’ve been geotagging as many as possible of my photos on flickr and with this great mashup by…
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Huge rice scooper
Here is my girlfriend in front of the biggest しゃもじ in the world: If you ever go to 宮島, you’ll see those wooden rice paddles everywhere. They are used to scoop the rice out of the rice cooker, at least before the wooden type was replaced by newer plastic, non-sticky ones. Souvenir shops sell big…
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Temple stickers
Still in 大聖院 temple, this gate was covered in these paper stickers. I don’t exactly know what they are for, my girlfriend told me it had something to do with sumo… Anyways, it looked really neat.
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Hiroshima Report
I’m back home, in good old Saitama. As usual, the trip went like a breeze, I arrived 20 minutes before my flight, checked in, passed security and boarded my flight all in one stride. Not the shadow of a line anywhere, a wonder for french guy used to american and european airports. Then once I…
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Frivole et Cocue
Just a photo of a shop I found in Omotesando station with a stupid french name. Cocue actually means “a cheated wife”…
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Wedding party
I went to a friend’s wedding party this weekend. Nothing fancy, just a nice meal at a french restaurant with everyone dressed out for the occasion. They got married in December but the party was only now. We ate good food, talked a lot and of course all got pissed drunk. Fun was had by…
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Cerulean Tower – 34th floor
Last week, since my girlfriend was moving, we had no place to stay in Tokyo for her last night (after the movers took everything and we gave back the keys). So since she didn’t exactly looked forward to the idea of staying at my place, Saitama being far from romantic, we looked for a hotel.…