7 April 2013 · Comment
Well har de doo dooo
So remember a couple posts ago when I was like, “my Japanese isn’t that good but it’s not like it’s so bad that I’m gonna miss my plane or anything hyuk hyuk”? Well guess what exact thing happened! Hurrrr. That’ll learn me not to display such flagrant hubris next time. But it’s ok, I got booked on the same flight 24 hours later for not that much money. And now I’m in Paris! Yay! Where I at least have a chance at figuring out what everything means by looking at it, unlike in Japan where if you don’t know what the kanji symbol for a word means, you’re just screwed!
So yeah, Paris! I have eight more weeks in Europe and I think I’m gonna make like a counterclockwise loop around the coast until I get to Istanbul to meet up with Jovanna at the end! I’m planning to go to Quimper next and satisfy the intense Brittany crepe cravings that have been building up in my heart since Ti Couz closed last May. SIGH. And I’m so excited to be able to eat delicious, authentic, vegetarian-friendly French food!!!! I met a delightful vegetarian Australian lady in the hostel last night who spent a long time in Japan and she commiserated with me on how much spaghetti and egg salad sandwich vegetarians have to eat there to stave off the hunger grumps. But now no more!
Here’s a couple of pictures. The first ones are from Matsuyama, which I went to almost entirely because it was supposed to be the site of the bath house they used as reference for Spirited Away. So those are pictures of the bath house! I’ll come back and caption them all proper-like later today, but it’s free museum day so I’m gonna get a move on and try to hit that up. Later!
The bath house! It’s called Dogo Onsen and I can certainly see the resemblance:
More bath house. This is what it felt like to be in it:
Whoa I never noticed that those two chicks behind the tub are totally interpentrating with it. Is that the word for it in 2D animation? Maybe it’s “having registration issues” or something instead? Well it looks nice and it took me this long to notice so maybe I should just shut my pie hole and stop overanalyzing everything.
Some people canoodling during hanami. Sorry for being creepy and taking your picture, people! It was just pretty is all.
Some cherry blossoms with weird lighting on them.
A cat in a cat cafe!! Ahhh so cute! This cat was wearing a like, bunny suit onesie and its tail was shaved to look like a lion’s tail, but it was the only one wearing clothes and with a weird haircut. I hope they put it in clothes because it was the only one that liked them and not just because it had the grumpiest face, but it was probably because it had the grumpiest face.
Another cafe cat! These pictures are from Naoshima and I went to the cat cafe with some fantastic people I met randomly on a bus who live like, five blocks from my apartment in Berkeley!! How awesome is that! Also, I did manage to get a lease for my apartment from undergrad, so that’s happening. I can’t wait to be the creepy old lady who’s constantly trying to relive her undergrad years! Also I’m gonna get a life-sized cardboard version of Suzanne and talk to it every night and take pictures of us together and tag her in them on facebook ahhhh I can’t wait!
You know what the cat cafe was called? Nyaoshima. Because “nyan” is Japanese for “meow” and we were on the island of Naoshima! So cute!
These are the awesome people from Berkeley! Well, Vincent on the left lives in San Francisco but Annette and Michael live so close to my apartment and we are going to be the best of friends.
This is the art they were sitting on! The big squarular thing is a hot tub and you can ask the people at the nearby art museum for a reservation and then just chill out in the hot tub on the beach. Awesome.
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