hi fro Japan

Yokoso Japan!!

Great! I am settled in Tokyo, Shibuya. Comfy place, and I have a washing machine and dryer, and even a small kitchenette. Clothes' troubles are over, Fabrizio the FrenchMaid (or Lisetta, for those who know) can do all her chores even here in faraway Japan.
I am finally off the job, and these few weeks will be just pure vacation, traveling around in the old Kansai, the heart of ancient Japan.
Just had a little walk around the neighborhood, but it's steamy hot and cloudy today, so it's definitely not the good season to be here ;) lots of youngsters, the average age of people in the street is around 18. And Tokyo is even more futuristic than I remembered, just from a little 4 years ago. Boy, come here to see what our cities will look like in maybe 20 years from now? (not Rome, and sure enough not Todi :)) However, it's very nice to see that the side alleys still look like outdated places, it's enough to step aside of the main streets to find yourself in a kind of little village, with fruit shops, barber, all kind of repairmen, little girls helping out their mum to sprinkle the grass, men chatting noisily on the door of a bar, etc.
Here, in this famous hotel-stay which costs me about 9400 yen/day breakfast included, I have free broadband cable connection, so I can read and write my horrendously long e-mails, and can even make Skype calls.
I will take a shower, then go out for some dinner and finally go (strangely) to sleep.... which will seem quite odd, but will try to force myself into believing that it should be really nighttime...