And food was great!

And food was great and enjoyed last night at France before coming back to Scandinavia. A little bit too much cheese I ate during staying there for three nights but it should work fine for fixing my ankle.

Great food at Lyon

Since the workshop went well, I decided to have a good food at downtown in Lyon with a colleague. This restaurant served local Lyon cuisine and it is on the same street where I came for dinner with my wife when visited on March.

Grenoble again

Went to Grenoble again for workshop. It was cold as well there but I got adapted pretty soon maybe because I am used to Nordic climate.

Vilnius airport

Some aircrafts have never been seen before and kind of interesting. And time to say good-bye to Vilnius. It is another beautiful & interesting European city. Hopefully can come back again.

Back to the airport

Took train to the airport. It was pretty much brand new train and comfortable. However, just about 10 minutes journey. BTW, they say taking picture is not allowed within the station facility. I wonder why and what's gonna happen to me if I take?

Pilies street

Pilies street is one of the oldest streets in Vilnius. Good cafes and restaurants can be found there and we sometimes browsed and ate food and took a break for tea/coffee because our apartment was quite near.

Christmas season has begun!

People were flooding to the Cathedral square to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season. It was fun but very much cold. The young guy who is a son of the apartment owning family where we stayed said the temperature sometime reaches -25 degree. Fortunately it seems not -25 degree at that evening but anyway very much cold.

Christmas is approaching!

Yes another bulky food

Ate yet another bulky food. It is quite interesting food but to be honest too much. Weisbeer is great.

Vilnius unversity

Vilnius university was established in 1579 and one of the oldest universities in eastern Europe. It is open up for non-university students or faculty to look around in accessible areas. Unfortunately, one of the main should-be-checked facility, the university book store, was closed because of the end of the semester.

Cathedral

Three crosses hill

A monument dedicated for seven Franciscan monks. A very calm and dignified monument.

St Anne's Church

The old part of Vilnius may be large and there are lots of interesting architectures. Many of them are churches or facilities inspired by Christianity.

Full but still room for a chocolate cake

We are supposed to be full but amazingly still have room for a chocolate cake. Very much interesting interior within the cafe which we dropped in.

And lots of food and drink

Zeppelins is kind of potato based dumpling and bulky but good alternative to meat. Lithuanian beer is good quality. Tried Svyturio - Ekstra which good lager. Also don't forget to try their vodka.

Very much unique tea house

Frozen city square

The square in front of the city hall was completely frozen but children did not care or rather, they liked playing on the slippery square.

Vilnius

Took one day off to make a long weekend and visited Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. Although it was very cold, Vilnius is a lovely city with lots interesting architecture.

Forbidden City

Overwhelmed by its architecture. But unfortunately ran out of time because time to catch flight back to Sweden was approaching. Want to come back soon.

Tiananmen

Have met their great ex-leader.

Saturday morning

Traffic has become busy even on Saturday morning. Yes, I admit I am becoming kind of like Beijing but I don't want to drive a car on my own.

Yashow market

Yashow is a building comprising hundreds of small businesses and shops mostly specializing in clothes. Sellers are very aggressive and tough to negotiate prices. One cannot expect to win the negotiation against them because even if you think won but actually you have lost.

Wonderful food

All food is just amazing and tasty. The yellow vegetable needs a bit of carefulness. It is hot unlike Swedish mustard much like Japanese one. But still great taste.

Sanlitun

Busy commercial and gastronomic district. Eat yet another great kind of Chinese/Indian food with yet another sweat...

Wonderful Beijing

Visited Beijing as continuous business trip. Met wonderful colleagues and great food. This noodle was spicy and I was a bit embarrassed with sweat coming out of my warm body. But I cannot argue about the taste. And it it really inexpensive (8 RMB about 0.9 euro).

Shinagawa overview

Overview from Shinagawa Prince Hotel. Woke up early in the morning and opened up curtains, then impressed by the beautiful landscape and with a bit of clouds but still transparent sky.

A short trip back to Japan

A short business trip back to Japan. Ginza district where I came quite often in 80s and 90s. It's been changed and amazed by quite few brand shops but still Ginza is Ginza which is a town for matured people.

Bye for now

Great food and wine and...

Great food and wine with one of the finest artificial objects human has created in the world behind. Last night at Barcelona.