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Tokyo! Catherine

The first week of May is a week off in China, we have the opportunity to go a little trip to Tokyo Japan! Quite different

Shanghai must say! Back in the civilized world, finished the horns, the stink, garbage and dirt! The Japanese are super hospitable and courteous, and besides we were in a superb 4-star hotel.

Here are some highlights of our trip: First

shopping destination, district of Shinjuku! Sarah took the opportunity to make lots of clothes, especially the maternity floor of Benetton, while I have benefited me to store CDs and video games!



We went to the Sompo Japan Museum of Art, a museum dedicated to the art of painter Seiji Togo (very hot!), But mainly because he has been one of the famous Van Gogh's sunflowers. Always cool to see the paintings hyper-known "in person"! The museum was on the 42nd floor of this building.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, interesting for its free observatory that can see the whole city.



Golden Gay, part of Shinjuku a lot of little houses strung and separated by tiny alleys. Filled with tiny bars (really tiny, often with only 5 or 6 places) and having a really special atmosphere.

Shinjuku (and Sarah) night

The Japanese gardens are really beautiful. Here are some photos of one of those we visited.






We attended a tea ceremony. The hostess made the tea and serves it to us. Easy to say, but the procedure is quite complicated and formal, and green tea has a taste and texture which was not used to (rather than creamy)!


Me and Sarah in the garden! It is a very popular place for weddings, there were twenty wedding that day!

One of the biggest Buddhist temple in the city


The Akihabara district, seriously one of the coolest places on earth. Imagine a neighborhood with dozens of electronics stores, video games, anime and manga! Completely amazing!

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last leg of our visit, we visited the Ghibli Museum, dedicated to animated films of Hayao Miyazaki! We were very lucky: the museum is accessible only by reservation, and it normally takes three months to book tickets in advance. Fortunately, the concierge at our hotel we managed to find! The tickets cost us 5 times more expensive, but we had a private guide to Japan that led us on site (it's far enough, a suburb of Tokyo) and we did the translation (the museum is only in Japanese).

Me, Sarah and the belly avec un Totoro!

Un statue géante du robot de Castle in the Sky!


Et voilà, fini les vacances, c'est plutôt déprimant de revenir sur Shanghai après cette semaine, on se dit qu'on y retournera bientôt! :)

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Il se trouve qu'on a TV5 sur le cable! Nul besoin donc de préciser que c'est le poste le plus écouté, rivalisant sérieusement avec HBO. Une fois par jour on a le bulletin de nouvelles de Radio-Canada, c'est cool pour rester un au courant de l'actualité du Québec. On est aussi complètement dans le feu de l'action de l'élection française! :)
But
best: issuing Catherine (a kind of bad sitcom Quebecois with Sylvie Moreau and Dominique Michel) happens every night, but subtitled in French! It's so funny to see the French translation of what is said in Quebec that we started to listen regularly and we are now addicted! Cons by poor French, the translation is even less funny than the original! Not really the best representation of the Québec television broadcasting in the world!

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Jing'an Temple

Jing'an Temple (literally, the temple of peace and tranquility ") is a Buddhist temple on Nanjing Lu, not too far from home.

Not too quiet in fact it is wedged between skyscrapers and shopping malls at the intersection of two major boulevards, and is currently under renovation. Not much atmosphere that is expected when entering a temple!

The temple dates from 247 AD, but is at its current location since 1216, is almost a hundred years before the official founding of the city of Shanghai in 1292.


The courtyard




kinds of incense sticks are available at the door. The faithful the lit, then collect facing alternately to the four cardinal points.

The goal here is to reach the upper section of this trick by throwing pieces of 1 yuan!

The largest sitting Buddha in the country is here! 3.8 meters ...

A wooden statue of a goddess. 6 meters, 5 tons!

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A view from the balcony on the second floor

A view from outside (and Sarah!)

And now, the next temple will visit the Temple of Jade Buddha ! We'll keep you posted!

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Children beggars

Even if the sellers of fake on the street are sometimes quite annoying, we eventually get used to. Beggars too, which are quite rare but incredibly tenacious. An old granny has already followed for 2 in our street corners asking for money; after a bit we ended up buying peace.

But the worst of the worst is the mothers who bring their children to beg. Their stuff, they station themselves near a street corner, and when they see a good prospect (expats, usually), they literally let go of their children who run after us and we do not leave an inch. It happened to us yet again last night, returning the restaurant; Two children of 5-6 years max we have skipped over them with pot changes. It s'aggripent after us asking us for money, and we follow up time we give them something. Obviously, we always end up giving them a few yuan, They then return immediately to their mother that they tip their next target.

is pretty traumatic, and it's especially extremely sorry ...

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No sex this week!

We had our second appointment at the Shanghai East International Hospital for monitoring pregnancy of Sarah. It was hoped to be able to see the sex of the baby this week ultrasound, but no luck! They told us we would normally see on our next visit, or 20 weeks.

Apart from that the baby and mom are doing very well. Sarah has had powerful headaches the past two weeks, and the doctor said it was normal and probably has poor circulation. He therefore advised to stay extended when it happens.

In a similar vein, Sarah has finally found a maternity store with clothing other than overalls and sweatpants, she was obviously very happy! She also received a pair of pants she was made to measure in a small fabric store near us. $ 20 + for making fabric prices, it's pretty affordable. She recently discovered that H & M just opened a few blocks from here. All these new stores, in addition to the arrival of the sun, it really cheer! :)