Third day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit the historic Japanese city of Kyoto. Among the sites to see were Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kiyomizu-dera, Kinkaku-ji. There was so many to see in Kyoto that we knew in advance we won't be able to cover them all, so we just took our time touring the city.
Breakfast Frozen food from convenience store. I studied for very long how to heat this up, the result was that I should put this directly on stove (surprise that the tin foil won't burn through).
Second day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit the sights in Osaka City, returning to our apartment for a party dinner, followed by Japanese-styled spa in the evening.
Since we won't be travelling much in Osaka City, my friends generally got up late today.
Despite that I mentioned in the last post, that the immigration lines at Osaka Kansai Airport were ridiculous line, so it was half past 8 in the evening when we reached our Airbnb apartment near Kuromon Ichiba Market. But since we were university students and this was still early in the night for us, so we decided to take a walk in the surroundings and there came this post of the 0-th day of our Japan trip.
Chinese Labor Day Holiday in May, 2017. After discussions with my undergraduate classmates, we decided that this should be the time for our graduation trip, and we chose Japan as our destination.
During the reservation process, we found that All Nippon Airways (ANA) could offer us a relatively cheap Japan domestic legs in its return tickets, so we chose an itinerary of Beijing - Osaka - Tokyo - Beijing with ANA, the first leg of which is NH980 from Beijing to Osaka.
5 nights, some tourist sites, a few meetings with friends and countless Pokemons later, I was on my return trip to Beijing on April 10th.
Check-in Counters at Chicago O'Hare Airport T4 Those national flags should represent destinations from Chicago O'Hare. Just like any other US airport, the depth of the check-in areas were rather short here. By the way, shouldn't Chicago's practice of assigning each airline a fixed counter a waste of departure hall counters? (Especially for airlines like China Eastern that operated on sub-daily basis.)
In early April I accepted a university's campus visit invitation and visited Chicago area. Given that their 600 dollar allowance on travel, my only choice within that for return trip from Beijing to Chicago was China Eastern Airlines with connection at Shanghai Pudong.
Three days of Barcelona shall round off my four week's roaming the world, and it's about time I get back to school before the registration period ended for my last undergraduate semester.
Third and last day in Barcelona.
The plan of the day was to visit Casa Amatller, one of the three buildings in Mancana de la Discordia (Discord District), Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau, another work representative of Catalan Modernism and a functional hospital until not very far ago, then Mount Montjuïc, with its castle on its top and Barcelona Olympics arenas halfway up.
Fundació Antoni Tàpies Contemporary museum in a modernist building offering works by painter Antoni Tàpies & other artists. One can tell that it's different from its roof decorations.
Second day in Barcelona, as the sky cleared into a bright sunny day.
The plan of the day was to visit two of Antoni Gaudí's architecture masterpiece, Casa Milà and Casa Batlló, followed by roaming the Barcelona old city.
