The world is a book. Those who do not travel read only a page.
-Sant `Agostino
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These days it rains due to a typhoon that is skimming the coast of Japan. Because of this rain I did not do anything special, even here, an Italian, even walking down the street is special.
However, in short, I visited the districts linitrofi and bought a video camera, the Sony HDR-HC1K. This camera that costs less than half here in Italy, uses a high-definition video technology to record images with the quality of a DVD.
I already tried to download movies on a computer, compact in divx, burn them on DVD and so on. Everything perfect. I just have to become familiar with these video editing programs otherwise offer the public the risk of a long boring movie than 5 hours.
I also heard my first earthquake of this year: Sunday afternoon while the laptop tinkered'm shaking all over, I do not care and come back to play with. Later they told me here at home when there is an earthquake is running well on the top floor of the house because if it were very strong the first thing that happens is that some of the Twin Tower: The upper floors of those crushing lows. Beautiful is not it?
Apart from these toys last night we were in my car with a `friend Kanako, the streets of Yokohama.
this girl's car is similar to many other machines here, a kind of huge van, quiet, comfortable, ultraspazioso, hyper with integrated GPS and of course with an automatic transmission.
burn some red and committing the usual lack of attention that only a woman can commit to the guide, led us gently for a couple of hours' walk to Yokohama, between neighborhoods full of restaurants, nightclubs, pubs, buildings, offices and even over a huge bridge that recalls' what they want to do to the Strait of Messina but here `s have made in less than a year.
We left at 19:30 and returned at 22:00. Code found? None. Traffic? the same that we can all be in Florence is one of the night.
but now I wonder how it is possible that in a city that has 10 million people there is no traffic? simple, everyone, even in the hot hours like these, take the public services that work seamlessly, are clean and the cost right.
Each shopping center, neighborhood or important public building in Tokyo and Yokohama (remember that they are virtually two cities attacked, indistinguishable one from the `other` to nowadays) is connected via an underground network of metropolatina / train. Every three minutes exactly is a train which can either be local in that it stops at every station, or espresso (which runs every 15 minutes) which stops in the most important ones. Each written on large display of departures / arrivals is bilingual (English Japanese).
here if a train has a delay of two minutes the company running the train must pay fines salty and of course the strike does not exist because everyone is paid more than good and then never a hardship.
Needless to say, when we have to move underground is the best and quickest. The train
is always clean, has air conditioning / heating and is just a bit boring because they all take it to the 18/20 return to work and gets stuck between the people (which is very quiet even if they are from industry professionals packed into the train make them fit all).
In the race yesterday evening only one person has played the horn when he noticed that he was going to dab my (ah wing mirror, when did women remember that there?) And travel and has been quiet in this sort of spaceship that was his huge Nissan.
Passing through the streets, all clean and full of huge buildings and lights phantasmagoric wonder when in Italy you can watch this general.
I think ever.
L `Italy for his apparent luck (instead is one of his greatest misfortune) lives on the decomposed remains of an Empire and later on the ruins of ancient civilizations that we in the modern world are a curse. You can not dig without finding some artifact. On one side is a good thing, but forcing us to live in a small area blocked by cars and smog with no possibility of solving the root. Here the other day of the plates do not know what they are, the air is clean, not to mention the rivers where people bathe there.
The bathroom! can you imagine now the people who bathe in the Arno or the Tiber? perhaps suicide.
Here the rivers that pass through Tokyo and Yokohama are so well kept and clean that people there are bathrooms and picnic on the shore.
with us if you get too close to the bank risks that tarpon you drag in the water-to devour.
One other thing-denoting a civilization superior to ours: the bathrooms.
Each store has its own bathroom, also a hairdresser. If you need to do you can safely walk into a store and ask where is the bathroom without anyone to use it you look bad.
Every mall has one or two bathrooms per floor (normally has nine storeys in height and two underground). All the bathrooms are clean, smell and even have well classical music in the background.
and I've yet to find a dirty or stink.
with us when there is one already is expected to clean the place that houses the top of the top, type restaurant from € 100 per person.
And to find one you have to travel for miles, and if you find you have to pay well. Ridiculous.
I am ashamed when I think of those Japanese who come to Italy and see where we are ... because many of them only know us for our fashion and our machines. In every place you see Italian brands, Prada, Gucci, Barilla, Ferrari ... etc. and we admire very much for this. Then come to Italy and I guess you wonder if the plane is Nation's wrong, maybe the pilot in command is confused and is not landed in Somalia Italy.
But unfortunately no mistake.
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