Japan : 富山, walk along the river

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After visiting the 富山成, I went to walk along the river. The river is edged by sakura trees and it would probably be very beautiful to watch during the blooming season. However the river side is also edged by statues and of course I took it as a personal challenge or maybe duty to photography all of them.
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Japan : 富山城

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Another free afternoon I went to visite the 富山城 (Toyama castle). The castle was first build in 1543 but was destroyed by Hideyoshi in 1585. The castle was then rebuilt and burned down, then rebuild and dismantle. It seems that the people around never really agree if there should be a castle there or not. It was rebuild for the last time after the second world war. The inside now serves as a museum telling the local history. It was good to visit but it's not my favorite castle by far.
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ガリレオΦ (Galileo episode zero)

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ガリレオΦ is based 3 years before ガリレオthe serie. In this episode, we discover Yukawa's two first cases. The one he helped to solve when he was still a student at university and his friend Shunpei was accused of a murder and the first case Shunpei asked him help with after becoming a policeman.

The first case just show how brilliant Yukawa's mind was and how he liked to solve problems even though the solution has nothing to do with the case. The second case is a real mystery as a man was found assassinated in his house closed from the inside after an fire.

Casting : 

福山 雅治 as Manabu Yukawa
北村 一輝 as Shunpei Kusanagi 
品川祐  as Shiro Yuge (Shunpei's assistant)
渡辺いっけい as Hiromi Kuribayashi (Yukawa's assistant)
真矢みき as Sakurako Jonouchi (Medical examiner)

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ガリレオ (Galileo)

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ガリレオ is a Japanese drama in 11 episodes from 2007. It's taken from a novel by the mystery writer 東野 圭吾.

As she starts her carrier of detective in the criminal division, Kaoru Utsumi wants to be the successor of Shunpei Kusanagi who solved a lot of strange and complicated case which seemed to be involving paranormal powers. As she asks for his advices, he tells to her that the only reason he was able to solve the mystery was his friendship with Manabu Yukawa, a college professor and physics genius.

Casting : 

柴咲 コウ as Kaoru Utsumi 
福山 雅治 as Manabu Yukawa
北村 一輝 as Shunpei Kusanagi 
品川祐  as Shiro Yuge (Utsumi's sempai)
渡辺いっけい as Hiromi Kuribayashi (Yukawa's assistant)
真矢みき as Sakurako Jonouchi (Medical examiner)



Of course I love this drama, after all the hero is a physicist. And the first episode had to do with laser, what else would I need to be happy. ”さっぱり分からない。実に面白い”　（変人ガリレオ）
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Japan : 富山、滑川の蛍烏賊博物館

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On the 21st of September I went to 富山、for a conference. As usual I decided to do a bit of sightseeing but at the beginning, a typhoon was raining itself out all over the place and it was really difficult to walk in the street and to see anything without risking pneumonia. So one free afternoon I decided to go spend my day in the 蛍烏賊博物館  (firefly squid museum, ほたるいかはくぶつかん）in 滑川 (なめりか). I had the museum all for myself and the staff came to get me for the live show which was also just for me. It was really interesting and I learned a lot about the fishing of the firefly squid and about the particularities of their bodies making them luminous. It was a very fun day.
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France : Rostrenen

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After the  conference in Belfast, I went back to France to visit my family for a week. During the market day I took the time to go take some picture of my home town. I'm used to have people asking me if I come from Paris as generally that's the only French city they know. So here is the answer, no, I'm not coming from Paris, I come from a very small town in the center of Brittany. You won't be able to pronounce the name of it and you will have forgotten it by tomorrow but here is what it looks like.
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Ireland : Irish dance

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At the conference diner there was a representation of Irish dances before we actually start to dance ourselves. Irish dance involve a very high level of practice as the body remain straight when the feet and legs makes you turn and jump. Despite doing more sport recently, Irish dancing was making me very hot and sweaty but it was also a lot of fun. I hope you'll enjoy watching the following video of our professional dancers of the evening.
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