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ASIAAAA!!!
Getting started with Asia... Wow! Frenetic Tokyo lifestlye! Going to bed after sunrise, waking up at sunset! I was hungry for party but I never thought it would be that much. 48 hours went by before I first went to sleep. I don't know how but the first 5 planned days here became 10 as I found this kind of life very energizing and revealing. J'ai comme accepter ici que je n'avais pas 50 ans mais bien 29! Que j'etais encore jeune, beau, en forme, celibataire et pleins de potentiel dans tous les sens possibles. Meme si ca m'a pris 4 mois, j'ai vraiment reappris a prendre la vie comme elle vient ici tout en sachant qu'elle a tellement a offrir. La vie est delicieuse et ca fait du bien! J'ai vieilli de 15 ans dans les 4 dernieres annees et je compte bien vieillir de seulement 4 ans dans les 15 prochaines!
And big thumbs up to my good friend Phil and his brother Alex who made me realize these things, not by talking about it, but just by being at the good place, at the right time. I start the second half of my trip with a better way of seeing life.
Sgaghetti Tokyo Metro Map!!
The worst is that this is only one company. You have many metro companies in Tokyo, one on top of another. Pure madness! All right! Enough with this philosophical talk. What is Tokyo in a few sentences? Let's say everything is small and fast, and they are everywhere (making it huge!). The subways maps are so complex that they look like primavera spaghetti plates thrown on a white wall. But then, it is so clean that you could sleep in the gutters as they were cleaner than some hostels I stayed in the previous countries. People are way too kind and polite, it doesn't make any sense in such a huge city. The clerks at 711 bows when he/she serves me and people in the streets lend me their cellphones to call my hostel or my friends when I ask them directions. I lost my wallet in Tokyo and I got it back 1 hour later. Nightlife is all about dancing and meeting new interesting people as the sun is rising. And finally food is so good and healthy, no wonder why people here usually reaches 100 years old.
After 10 amazing days in Tokyo, I took the bullet train (Shinkansen) at 300 km/h to reach Kyoto where it rained, then it rained and rained again. But it was all good! Some
SUSHIS!!!!!!!!!!!
The best sushis in the world! You gotta love sushi! random person gave me an umbrella and I wandered from temple to temple and mixed with locals at small tiny restaurants, karaoking with them and laughing at the non-sense of google translate from their iphones. That's what happens when you don't have a travel guide book : you find yourselve where there's no tourist to be seen miles around!
Par la suite, mon interet pour l'histoire m'a transporte a Hiroshima. C'est difficile de croire que les Americains ont largue une bombe atomique ici, "Little Boy"! Directement sur la population elle-meme! D'autant plus que j'ai passe l'apres-midi la-bas a jouer et a rire avec les enfants de la place. Voulez-vous vraiment parler de terrorisme?
To reach Korea, I took a local bus, a shinkansen, another local bus, a ferry from Hakata to Busan, a shuttle bus, a train, a cab and then I got lost at 5 meters from my hostel. But I prefer using air and land as good old ways of travelling. Seoul is so huge that it seems there are 4 or 5 downtowns. And almost nobody speaks english here creating a pretty good language barrier. Most of the time I don't even know what I'm In Tokyo Metro
Comme dans une fourmiliere! ordering at the restaurant. But there's a lot of interesting thing around, people are great and I'm having a blast. Not the mention the delicious Korean BBQ's, soooooo good!! aaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!! ("Homer Simpson drooling" noise)
J'attends presentement mon visa pour la Chine et demain nous decollons pour Pekin (avec Tanguy, un sympathique Parisien qui fera un bout de chemin avec moi en Chine), ou nous devons rejoindre pleins d'autres sympathiques personnes que nous avons rencontrees a Seoul. Vivement l'Asie!
I won't be able to write another blog until I reach Viet Nam since Facebook is prohibited in China so don't panic if I don't reply my facebook messages for the next few weeks. You can always write me at nikolasmasutti@hotmail.com. CHINA!!! ... here I come!
With a phenomenal quantity of juicy love,
Nikolas xx
P.S.: You'll find attached with this blog my itinerary map since day 1...
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Michel
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mouhahaha!!!!
mouhahaha!!!!