Monday, September 12, 2011

Winter in New-Caledonia

~ Home ~


~ Biscotte ~



~ Anse Vata ~




~Noumea from the Ouen Toro ~

~ Val Plaisance, my neighborhood ~ 

~ Promenade Pierre Vernier, my jogging spot ~

~ Plage du Meridien ~


~ Noumea, downtown ~

 ~ The port ~

~ Moselle Bay ~

~ The nickel industry spoiling the landscape.. ~









Sunday, September 4, 2011

Kawagoe


At 30 minutes from Ikebukuro, you can find a little town named Kawagoe, commonly referred as "Little Edo" for its old castle town remains (Edo being Tokyo's former name during the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603 to 1868). Kawagoe is a nice destination for a day trip from Tokyo, if you'd like to see some old Japanese architecture without traveling as far as Kyoto, Takayama, Kanazawa...