London!

I've been to London for short weekend vacation! It's my first time visit. (exactly it was second time becuase i went there when I was one year old but since i don't remember at all i should say my first time :)) anyway, it was great! I liked very much London. Seems like Tokyo as atmosphere... It's kind of similar. Many people, tube, shops etc... Especially there were many Japanese sushi bar! Of course we went to eat there and also fish and chips, and curry! And also we visited many markets like Borough market, Portobello market, Whitecross street market and Spitalfields.. one market missed was Columbia Road market... It was near the hotel where we stayed but since the market was only on Sundays we didn't have time.. But I tried Bagel which was recommended in the guide book.. ^_^ And of course, there are many other markets all around london.. Anyway, it seems that we went to London just for eat... ^_^;; However in general I love market! Many fresh vegetable, food, clothes, strange odd things.. but still interesting because each market is specialized and you can see the everyday life of Londoners.. I think it is interesting also London bus tour but I would rather recommend market tour!

Back from vacation...

It has passed about a week since I am back from vacation to Tokyo. Yes, I went to my hometown! and I caught flu... I am in the bed about a week.. Uff..
Anyway, Tokyo was great!
We had good weather, about 20 degrees, every day. Just with shirt was great.
We went all around Tokyo. So, I would like to write about little Tokyo guide little by little.
For now just little hello!
Cheers,

Little escape to Venezia

Yesterday we did short trip to Venezia!
We took highway and it took about 3hours. From Venice we took little boat to Murano.
Murano is famous for its glass work. And of course my purpose was to find beautiful glass beads! But there was not so much beads.. Instead there was many glass work mirror, lamp, little animal made of glass etc etc... I think there's place where selling bulk of beads but may be you should know the place... anyway, the island was bigger than I thought. But except the shop, when you go inside the island where there's resident area, it's silence.. I don't know if it's because summer vacation or because always in silence... a little bit sad..
anyway, at 3 o'clock, we took late lunch, fish spaghetti and fried fish. It was pretty good! and then we left Murano island and we went to Venice. We walked in the little alley like a labyrinth. Many small bridges everywhere. There's no car, no bicycle.. Only one we saw with the tire was a handcart for the post-man! It's very unique and at certain point you can feel as if you did a time trip to medieval. Feeling foot step of carnival people with mask.. mysterious and fascinating.. The day we went was hot! Extremely hot... there was no wind but strong sun light.. Anyway, we walked a lot and got tired but we saw many beautiful things.

Mountain

This weekend, we went to mountain near Dolomiti, Trentino, border of Switzerland and Austria. It's about 180km from Bergamo. We took highway and then mountain road. The day we left it was not good weather... raining and cloudy. When we arrived at Mountain, it was cold! about 14 degree! I brought light cardigan but I didn't expect so much cold so we went to looking for another jacket and socks.. Next day it was fine sunny day, so we took the lift to go top of the mountain. There was only 10degree... so.. cold.. but the summer sun light is strong enough to get sun tan so we took chair and relaxed under the sun with jacket. We ate a lot and good cooking and relaxed..

Vacation to Belgium!

and so.. I went to the vacation to Belgium with my Mom! Me and my mother went around in the city of Bruxelles almost every day and visited many museum. Here's little guide where I visited.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: they had exhibition of EXPO '58, CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE WORLD FAIR which was a grand world fair when my mother was a child.
Another one was interesting comparing and influences between oriental and western art "Oriental Fascination – Japonism in Belgium" at Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles. I think Japanese art influenced in a lot of category and various artists in the world their fascination. This time was Belgium painter.
René Magritte Museum: it is the house of Magritte which he lived when he created a lot of his work. While he was working as a graphic designer he painted many brilliant work. And many of his work where you can find houses or room was where he lived..


Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art: it was second time which I visited this museum. This time it was to see Smurf 50's anniversary! I like this museum for the building and the exhibition. The building is very art-nouveau stile and my mom said one time it was textile shop. and now here it is, they are presenting Belgium Bande Dessinèe.



Ixelles Museum of Fine Arts:
Collection of Belle epoque mainly Alexandre Charpentier. I liked his work very much. Warm, delicate and fine sculpture themed on music and family.

In Bruxelles it was cool and not so good weather though as usual. but i enjoyed these exhibition. I hope you enjoy little tour of belgium museum with me!