http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Rubenow/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Rubenow en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:14:19 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:14:19 +0000 4 days of architecture art museu tapas cerveza and many other wonderfull things...great city http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Madrid/blog-395620.html a short but wonderfull visit with my family to the city where a long time ago my grand grand parents where living. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/District-of-Madrid/Alcal-de-Henares/blog-395621.html 4 days of architecture party and fun in Berlin together with Ryan Sonya Negar and Kaori...and our super nice host Christin. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-395617.html We did a day trip with some students to the remote area vinales a amazing valley with caves landscapes and beautifull waterfalls....These waterfalls where good for swimming...some rum and cigars...life can be sooo nice.....and the first time i really showered under a waterfall....one of 20 mt..... http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cuba/Oeste/Pinar-del-Rio/blog-343231.html For the studio Border Conditions at the university of Delft The Netherlands i did a three weeks research trip to the capitol of Cuba...HAVANA. We stayed with 25 architecture students to do mainly research but also to enjoy this wonderfull city.... http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cuba/Oeste/La-Habana/blog-343230.html The last days of my trip to SouthKorea i spend in Seoul and it's surroundings. This city is probaly the most weirdest cities i've ever been it was hard to capture it and to place it in a context. The city with its 1314 milj inhabitants is one of the biggest in the world. In a way with its neon lights big streets and infrastructure it can be compared to tokyo only in Seoul there is the systema http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-314431.html The folowing day i took the early bus to Geongju said to be the kyoto of Korea. I had to agree with that the city hosted some great temples and palaces. The difference with the japanese temples shrines is that the Korean ones are smaller but much more colourfull. I was amazed by the beautifull painting of animals and gods. Half the day i visited some temples before going by bus to Daegu the t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Gangwon-do/blog-314430.html August is suposed to be a holiday month so i decided to make it a holiday. August 12th i took the local train from Tokoy to Hiroshima 16 hours where i spent the nigth the next day i took the local train to shimonoseki 5 hours where i jumped on the ferry to SouthKorea. For some period of time i'm interested in this country because of it's kind of similarity to Japan little bit it's devid http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-314429.html You are a wise man if you climb Mnt Fuji but you are a fool if you climb it twice as the Japanese saying goes i have to agree with that. Me my two brothers sjoerd and David my father peter and my neighbor David started at 4 AM in the afternoon in shibuya the fuji climb by eating loads of Ramen. Around 5PM we left shinjuku tokyo and drove by bus to the mnt Fuji region the bus dropped u http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Shizuoka/Mt-Fuji/blog-314427.html During my stay in Japan i was amazed by the strange difficult and painfull situations Japanese people can sleep. But after 6 months i have become one of them...i can sleep on the most weird places and in the strangest positions. Probaly it's in the air or i'm just tired from all the experiences.... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-314428.html After the late evening of the exhbition i packed my backpack and took at 10 PM hours with david the boat from Tokyo to Kozushima. Kozushima is a vulcanic island in the pacific at 12 hours from Tokyo. We slept on the cheapest places this was on the deck of the boat. In the morning we woke up with a view on the open sea with now and than an island. Around 10 AM we arrived at the island and where we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Niijima/blog-308224.html Last week was my final week for official studying. I spent this week with one architecture soccer tournament and hard working on the exhibition. Together with Belinda also a member of the lab we organised on the 31st of july an exhibition with the theme 'I tried to capture tokyo but tokyo captured me'. Our research project both focussed on this topic for me with video mappings and video shots a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-308205.html A impression of my weekend break culture party beach cycling theather...mmh yes everything tokyo and its surrounding has to offer...Enjoy the pictures and video. All the best Ruben Ps don't worry tomorrow it's study time again 31st of july i will have my final presentation of my research in the shape of a exhibition...more then http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-302243.html ... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-294416.html ... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Kyoto/blog-287454.html ... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokushima/blog-287452.html ... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Okayama/blog-287451.html ... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hiroshima/blog-287450.html ...text comes later http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-277389.html Every year my professor gives a labparty at his home. Every labmember and exlabmember is invited to enjoy some drink and a lovely dinner. During the evening we started of with presentations of new projects and researchtopics. Meanwhile the bbq started and we enjoyed japanese food but also western food such as the very tasty french cheese....mm now i remembered what i missed so much....chees http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-276814.html