Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the illumination in Shinjuku.

Dancing eyes

Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus by night.

Birds of Light

"Birds of Light" (i.e. color-changing clubs) flying in the hall of the Science Museum.

Where to look

Poor pedestrians are having a lot of troubles in finding their way around.

Hyde Park

Suspect

I always had the suspect that not everybody in London is quite human.

This phone box in South Kensington proves I was right.

Luckily for us

Luckily for us, Gundam is taking good care of Tokyo.

Starry starry night

It is incredible how much light pollution there is even in a very small village.
But the starry sky is always magnificent.

Breakfast

A little rat having his breakfast with some Indian Fig Opuntia. They were soooooooo good

Time for the pros

let's give a big hand to the pros!

Penguin on the move

Too cute! ^_^

Beluga

You can see them in action at the Sea Paradise in Hakkeijima.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter

"You cannot come back when the door"... when the door what?

At last

One of the most peculiar and curious "symbols" of the modern Japan: the squared watermelon :-)

And yes, you are reading it right: it costs ¥9800, i.e. more than 100 USD or 70 Euro. I still wonder who could buy such a thing...

Geiko and Maiko

Sunset

This is something that is impossible to see in Japan.

Jeanneke Pis

The world is plenty of puttos peeing in the fountains, you can see them almost everywhere. But this is the first time I see a statue of a girl doing the same thing (sorry for the red bars).

Jeanneke Pis (that's the name of this statue) was created by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987, as a gender counterpoint to the city's trademark Manneken Pis at the Grote Markt.

Red blinds

Nice touch of color on the facade of this building. I hope they have more than one person to open and close all the blinds every day.

Trails in the sky

Lot of contrails in the Dutch sky, today.

begging for your life

Seagulls in SF should be extremely dangerous, if even a Lioness begs for her life, when teared with powerful talons.

The opposite of engRish is hsiRgne?

If Japanese English is often called Engrish, how do you call English Japanese? Hsirgne?

The Golden Gate Bridge

A must in San Francisco is a visit to the Golden Gate Bridge, which takes its name from "Chrysopylae", the name given by Captain Fremont to the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. More facts and details on this beautiful bridge - still considered the symbol of San Francisco and California - can be found here, here, and here.

The true American symbol...

...lazily strolling in Berkeley, CA.

California

I wish I had this sky in Tokyo.

The leaning (and bending) tower of Pisa

Apology of the Schnauzer

Tokyo is a city always full of surprises. An example is the house above: what seemed to be a normal (for Tokyo) family house in the middle of a very traditional area, in fact, turns out to be a kind of apology of the Schnauzer.


They do really love their dogs, don't they.

Kamiiso Torii

神磯鳥居 (Kamiiso Torii) in 大洗 (Ooarai), Ibaraki prefecture [MAP], swept by the ocean waves.

Recommendation: Listen to "Il mare d'inverno" by Loredana Berte' while looking at this picture!

Happy 2009!

新年明けましておめでとうございます！
今年もどうぞ宜しくお願い致します．

Update: this picture has been also published on corriere.it.