Sandy, you asked for pictures with us in it, well I will post more like that, this is one of Wendy taken from Wendy's camera at Picadilly Circus, the one thats quite often shown in Movies - with a massive animated display above the TDK sign, looks awesome.
The weather turned foul over the past day and its been raining cats and dogs here, its great that we planned our gallery tours for today.
We toured the national gallery and it was fantastic, we saw alot of famous works that I studied for Matric art. The gallery is huge, unfortunately the entire Impressionist section was closed so we could not see those works, but it was a treat to see all the other works.
The gallery has a sophisticated computer art guide that allows you to find your favourite works before you move through the gallery. They also have a massive A0 colour printer to print out high quality posters on demand - awesome idea!
We ate lunch at a Balti Indian restaurant and visited the Queens Art Gallery next to Buckingham Palace.
We are planning our next stage of our trip when we get our rental car on Tuesday and begin our next phase of our England tour.
Monday 28 May 2007
Sunday 27 May 2007
Big Ben
I love this new camera, it takes awesome shots. Loved this one of Big Ben.
Everything here is crazy expensive. A big mac is around £ 4 (12 aussie dollars) and a hungry jacks burger is £ 5 ( around 15 aussie dollars).
We had a lunch the other day that was £ 25 ( over 70 aussie dollars ). The food here is crazy expensive!
At the hotel they charge £5 for 1/2 hour internet access, and their PCs are so locked down you can do practically nothing.
The weather has been great so far, (no rain in 2 days) and sunny.
We have seen most of the main sights and rode the London Eye - only a 15 minute wait - the wait on the weekend must be an hour long as I checked it out today (Saturday) and the line was huge.
Everything here is crazy expensive. A big mac is around £ 4 (12 aussie dollars) and a hungry jacks burger is £ 5 ( around 15 aussie dollars).
We had a lunch the other day that was £ 25 ( over 70 aussie dollars ). The food here is crazy expensive!
At the hotel they charge £5 for 1/2 hour internet access, and their PCs are so locked down you can do practically nothing.
The weather has been great so far, (no rain in 2 days) and sunny.
We have seen most of the main sights and rode the London Eye - only a 15 minute wait - the wait on the weekend must be an hour long as I checked it out today (Saturday) and the line was huge.
Saturday 26 May 2007
Trafalgar Square goes Green!
For 2 days real roll on grass was laid around Trafalgar square, it was really cool. Heaps of people turned out to experience it. The weather was great (over 25 degrees and sunny).
London is massive and you really need the Londo Tube to get around, an amazingly efficient form of travel. At 5pm its insanely busy.
I finally found a decent net cafe near Oxford Circus, with PCs you can plug devices in, heaps of net cafes have Nazified PCs with no way of uploading your photos.
My feet are sore from 3 hours of walking around as Wendy gets in a day of shopping, I decided to do my own thing and check out other parts of London. We will meet up for dinner later tonight.
Its the weekend here and the increase in tourists over the weekdays is noticable.
London is massive and you really need the Londo Tube to get around, an amazingly efficient form of travel. At 5pm its insanely busy.
I finally found a decent net cafe near Oxford Circus, with PCs you can plug devices in, heaps of net cafes have Nazified PCs with no way of uploading your photos.
My feet are sore from 3 hours of walking around as Wendy gets in a day of shopping, I decided to do my own thing and check out other parts of London. We will meet up for dinner later tonight.
Its the weekend here and the increase in tourists over the weekdays is noticable.
Me and a lion at Trafalgar Square
We arrived in London the other day and the weather has been excellent, seen heaps of stuff, sorry I will have to keep this brief as the internet access in this hotel is expensive.. will post more soon!
Tuesday 22 May 2007
Japanese Netcafe PCs are annoying!
These Japanese mode NetCafe pcs are annoying. Either they are locked down so tight in nazi mode that you cant browse your photos on your USB card reader or you hit a wierd key combination and they go into Hirigana mode! Cant wait to used English Windows XP net cafe PCs in England.
Sweat in a bottle - What The?
A few people here ｏｎ Flickr have photographed this ｓｔｒａｎｇｅ drink, Iwill have to submit this for a what the? for Rove.
This vending machine was at the Mounbt Fuji Fifth Step also.]
This vending machine was at the Mounbt Fuji Fifth Step also.]
Mount Fuji Day Trip
Today we had a full day tour to Mount Fuji, a cable car tour to a high mountain peak., a river boat cruise and a trip back home via the Shinkansen ( bullet train).
The photo here was taken at one of the tourist shops at the Mount Fuji "Fifth Step" which is the highest point you can drive to on the mountain. It was very cold and melted snow was still on the ground in places.
This was a classic that I had to photograph, you can actually purchase Mount Fuji clean air in a bottle!..
After the day trip we took a 278 kilometre per hour ride on the Shinkansen and man do these things fly. The ride is super smooth. I wish I could of captured on camera the speed of a bullet train passing the station at 270 Km/h unbeleivable.
There is a new maglev Bullet Train in the works which will go 570 Km/h - we saw the track of it during the day trip.
This is one crazy place!!
The photo here was taken at one of the tourist shops at the Mount Fuji "Fifth Step" which is the highest point you can drive to on the mountain. It was very cold and melted snow was still on the ground in places.
This was a classic that I had to photograph, you can actually purchase Mount Fuji clean air in a bottle!..
After the day trip we took a 278 kilometre per hour ride on the Shinkansen and man do these things fly. The ride is super smooth. I wish I could of captured on camera the speed of a bullet train passing the station at 270 Km/h unbeleivable.
There is a new maglev Bullet Train in the works which will go 570 Km/h - we saw the track of it during the day trip.
This is one crazy place!!
Yes these are $2.50 apples EACH
I finally found the famous expensive hand grown and tendered apples. These are over $2.50 australian each and are huge. This was at a small market not far from the Ginza metro station where we took our first metro train back to Shinegawa Station opposite our hotel. Just buying the correct train ticket was not easy as the ticket machines although supporting English displays, were extremely hard to understand.
You really need to know japanese to get around this place, strange considering how many westerners visit Tokyo.
You really need to know japanese to get around this place, strange considering how many westerners visit Tokyo.
Long Exposure shot, Tokyo metro train at crossing
This is my favourite long exposure shot using a tripod, heaps of zoom, shot from the hotel window 29 floors up at the Shinegawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo Japan.
I wanted to do another shot like this at night with people at Ginza but most shops close here after 8pm during the week nights so I missed out doing one with all the cool lights.
I wanted to do another shot like this at night with people at Ginza but most shops close here after 8pm during the week nights so I missed out doing one with all the cool lights.
Monday 21 May 2007
View of tokyo from Tokyo Tower
Our first full day in Tokyo started with a bus tour of Tokyo which went past the tallest tower in Tokyo, similar in construction to the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. This tower will be superceded with a new tower to be built before 2010 when Japan transfers to HDTV from analog transmission, the new tower is vying to be the tallest structure on earth - over 700 metres high!
After the tour finished at lunch time we had lunch in a japanese restaurant - where we ate sushi and sashimi - the best I have had ever.
Thats all for now.
After the tour finished at lunch time we had lunch in a japanese restaurant - where we ate sushi and sashimi - the best I have had ever.
Thats all for now.
Tokyo Narita Airport
After 9 hours 21 minutes from Sydney airport we arrived in Tokyo Narita airport, our first glimpse of Japan. The plane spent 12 minutes taxiing to our final gate - gate 84, of at least 215 gates - this place is huge!
The bus from the airport was a 60 Km drive to Tokyo centre where our hotel is. The density of living here is hard to describe. 8 million people live in the Tokyo city centre.
Sandy please please tell mum that we are safe and well and that we had a great first day here in Tokyo Japan!
The bus from the airport was a 60 Km drive to Tokyo centre where our hotel is. The density of living here is hard to describe. 8 million people live in the Tokyo city centre.
Sandy please please tell mum that we are safe and well and that we had a great first day here in Tokyo Japan!
Saturday 19 May 2007
Twitter log now active from our mobile phone
I can now update my twitter log ( a micro blog ) via SMS messages from Wendy's mobile. You can see the latest twitter logs to the right of this blog site in the light blue box under the blog archives or via my Twitter home page here http://twitter.com/rfrost
Friday 18 May 2007
One day to go before we leave..
With nearly one day left, its been pretty hectic getting everything organised before we leave.
Tokyo's weather looks good, around 24-25 degrees. We will land in Tokyo around 7pm which is after sunset so we will fly in above Tokyo's city lights - cool.
I hope to take some videos using my camera and upload them to youtube, I will see if I can test doing the conversion for Tokyo and later on in the trip.
With a 4.30 am trek to the airport, I am not looking forward to a red-eye flight to Sydney. Thanks to Ana for offering to drive us to the airport - thanks Ana!
Tokyo's weather looks good, around 24-25 degrees. We will land in Tokyo around 7pm which is after sunset so we will fly in above Tokyo's city lights - cool.
I hope to take some videos using my camera and upload them to youtube, I will see if I can test doing the conversion for Tokyo and later on in the trip.
With a 4.30 am trek to the airport, I am not looking forward to a red-eye flight to Sydney. Thanks to Ana for offering to drive us to the airport - thanks Ana!
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