Nobody can imagine the state of excitement that was mine last Tuesday night, when I left my building to I get to my sister with whom I was about to go to Okinawa. Having hardly left Tokyo last September, I began to get a little crazy ... I love my beautiful life here, nothing to do, he should escape, to sail - is a success ...
must two-hour flight from Tokyo to reach Okinawa, the islets are located across from Taiwan. The north of the island consists of beautiful beaches, an aquarium internationally recognized (where you can see whale sharks, yay) and a pineapple theme park, while the south is home to the capital Naha , port airport, several historic sites become since the war, military bases, in short, real life, what ...
Okinawa belongs to the prefecture of Kyushu . In the early seventeenth century, the Ryukyu kingdom was annexed to Japan as Okinawa Prefecture and grew. The island became the spectacle of guerrilla, suicide and collective battles throughout the spring 1945 ... Like many Pacific islands, it has hosted U.S. military bases. All that is important, because where I'm getting at is that Okinawa, Japan is without Japan. And I just loved it. Japan is because Japanese people speak but do not look completely to the Japanese: their hair is thick and curly, girls are more voluptuous, boys are more broad-shouldered, tanned hides are more .. . People are calm and disciplined as the Japanese, but also know a laugh, look into your eyes, you ask questions and even flirting with you (I had forgotten what that word meant for six months!). .. The buses are all Japanese punctuality but it will not stop to feel this small southern side, universal, found in all the sunny places of the world ... raoul cool, there's no fire to the lake, tango corse, you know what I mean.
start with a detail that delighted us but for three days: the FRUIT!
There are fruits in Japan, but Japanese gardening habits are so different from ours that it becomes problematic. The Japanese prefer to pay with gold fruit, provided they are washed and rewashed, aesthetically impeccable, neat in their individual polystyrene boxes and paper. This therefore means that we almost never buy wholesale fruit and you buy them retail. This means also that the fruits are expensive and therefore we must ration (oh misery). The Japanese generally do not take dessert, which means that eating fruit at the end of the meal, it's unusual. Hence the continued high prices etc.. The Japanese do not 'food teeth into a fruit. Anything that is sweet to be in small part, cut, split and shared. Forget red apple at the end of the meal, the cafeteria is full you look like an alien ...
In Okinawa, not only there was fruit everywhere, but most was fruit UNKNOWN! Addicts that we jumped for joy, it was too much happiness! We found the best fruit in the world, the 'Atemoya , a kind of lawyer who once opened a tender and milky white flesh, juicy, sweet, soft, short, paradise. And shikuasa , a citrus fruit half-way between the lemon and yuzu. Viiiive the tropics. It was always expensive, but it has caught our frustration.
(I just learned that the seeds of Atemoya were toxic, it is good to know, Glups).
Soon, we will return to the transport in Okinawa (which are worth talking about them), what we have seen a range of , alcohol snake short, but good.
(More information on the blog of my sister,
