201807 京都旅行住宿與行程

住宿：

這次四天都住櫻花畫廊旅館（sakura-terrace-the-gallery）
位在京都車站後站出來，走路約四分鐘就可達的地方。
附近有 LAWSON，買東西很方便。

別人寫的旅館介紹　看這裡

大廳有迎賓飲料，餐廳也提供外帶服務。試過外帶沙拉，半份和一份差不多。　
提早訂的價格比較優惠。訂了四天的 twin bed ，價格是日幣46445。

行程：

在京都和大阪的行動，基本上都靠ICOCA卡，它跟悠遊卡類似。
詳細介紹看這裡。
在關西機場入境之後可以到二樓買，或者有售票的機器也都買得到。

日期	行程	交通方式
第一天	午餐： JR大阪車站連棟的話題性購物商場LUCUA 1100（イーレ）樓上吃鰻魚飯；９樓有 蔦屋書店 難波站逛街： TSUTAYA x 星巴克Starbucks　是歇腳的好地方 (咖啡難喝，連拿鐵都難喝) 樓上有美妝店，可以試最新的美妝。這裡提供免稅服務。 有女生專用的廁所，提供商品試用。這裡有提供locker，要採購的人，建議可以拉一個空的箱子，放到這裡的locker裡，買完東西可以直接封箱。XD	從大阪車站下樓， 搭鐵御堂筋線（梅田站）到難波站 這裡是大迷宮，地下有四層，相關位置要記清楚或拍照。
第二天	晴明神社 南禪寺 and blue bottle 錦市場 大葉高島屋：地下街買春捲 京都河原町四条：Disney Store　<錢包在這裡很難守住，有人在這裡走不到出口.... > BIC Camera ：位在京都車站前站旁(背對車站的左邊)   採購指南	從京都車站搭公車  市營9 到 一条戻橋・晴明神社前 下車，走2分鐘。(約26分鐘） 從晴明神社搭 市營 9 回 二条城前 下車（約10分鐘），改搭東西線地下鐵 到 蹴上站，走 7分鐘 到南禪寺（約24分鐘） 從 蹴上站 搭東西線地下鐵 到 烏丸御池站，走路到錦市場 從 Disney Store 對面的丸井百貨旁邊搭公車回到京都車站  如果搭公車會超過四趟的話，建議跟公車司機買 one day pass
第三天	貴船神社 伊勢丹百貨之地下街 紅豆麻糬好吃／UCC咖啡好喝！！ 三十三間堂 京都車站之拉麵小路	從京都車站搭 地下鐵烏丸線 到 國際會館車站 轉52號公車到貴船口車站 可選擇走路(約半小時)或搭 33號公車到貴船神社 從京都車站搭公車(206甲 or 208乙 or 68)到京都國立博物館/三十三間堂
第四天	京都國立博物館 AEON MALL：位在京都車站後站，背對車站的右邊 Minami 居酒屋	AEON MALL很好買，ex. Mont-Bell
第五天	在機場的 JAL ABC 櫃台領取BIC Camera的包裹。	因受颱風影響，那幾天下了很大的雨，在前一天先預約了隔天的利木津巴士，直接從京都車站到關西空港。優點是，行李不用自己拉！ ◆ Klook利木津巴士券事先購票(Limousine Bus) https://goo.gl/Gw4HRF  單趟(￥2550)/來回(￥4180)  停靠站:關西機場第二航廈/關西機場第一航廈/高速京田邊/京都車站八條口/堀川五條/四條大宮(部分)/二條車站(部分)/四條烏丸/鳥丸御池/京都市役所前/三條京阪/出町柳車站前

06 BZ Trip － on the way From TW to LA

那次飛行的路徑，是從台灣到 LA，然後到薩爾瓦多轉機到貝里斯。全程超過 24小時，是我經歷過的最久的飛行時間。這次搭新加坡航空，整體來說很不錯，椅子很好坐，食物也不錯，在飛機上沒有太痛苦。

As you can tell from the picture, the path that I went to Belize is : Taiwan -> LA -> El Salvador -> Belize. It took for more than 24 hours. It was the longest flight I ever took. I took Singapore Airlines from Taiwan to LA. The seat was comfortable and the meals were good. I did have a good time on the plane.



LA機場是一個很大的機場，有很多的航廈，分為國內線和國外線。因為要轉到薩爾瓦多的關係，我得先入境並領行李，然後再到另外一個航廈出境。LA機場實在太大了，加上時差，整個頭暈，花了一個小時才找到對的航廈進行 check in 作業。也因為飛了十個小時，實在累了，就直接 check in 進去，並等待四個小時。

(Welcome to LA)

LA airport is a busy airport. It has serveral terminals for different needs, such as national routes or American routes. Since I need to transfer from LA to Salvador , that I had to entry USA at one terminal and exit at the other terminal. It did take me a lot of time to find my Exit Terminal. After the flight for more than 10 hours from Taiwan to LA, I was tired at that time. I went to my gate to Salvador directly, through I had to wait for more than 4 hours for boarding.

在異鄉看到中文感覺很溫暖。
(The Chinese indicator warms me)

四處看了看，發現身邊有白人，黑人，黃種人。有一些人講英文，有一些人講西班牙文。在等待的時候，我才意識到我在這裡是外國人。



＂旅行能夠治癒種族歧視＂

在某一本書上看到這句話，此刻不能同意再多。

I looked at the people around me. The skin of them is quite different from the white people. Some of them speak in English while some of them speak in Spanish. In the waiting hours, I realized : I am the FOREIGNER here!

"Travelling can heal the racial discrimination."

I read this sentence from some book. I can't agree with it any more.

06 BZ Trip - how the trip begin?

Before beginning :

Although the story is about 2006, the reason why I still try to write the story is to memorize my memories and share my feeling with the kindly people I ever met in Belize.


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"Do you want to participate this project ?"

In the autumn of 2005, I was asked to join the project which is hold by TaiwanICDF.

The full name of ICDF is the International Cooperation and Development Fund. The background about TaiwanICDF can be referenced by http://www.icdf.org.tw/english/e_about_bg.asp.


TaiwanICDF had a technical assistance project to help BDF(Belize Defense Force) and MOE (Ministry of Education)to build their personnel information system. I was asked to write the systems. In considering the good for a while, I promised and wrote the following sentence:


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I sign my name.

I keep my promise.

There is no fear.

Just on the way!

(photo by my friend San, on the way to Mt.Himalayas)

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It was REALLY a tough challange to me. As more I know about the system needs, more I struggled with myself : English is not my mother tounge. It's really hard to figure out all the meaning of the terms and the relationship between the terms; Since the system will be transferred to the others, I have to be very logical to write the programming code... The loading was much more than that I could stand.


"Should I give up?" I thought about the idea for thousand times.


San reminded me to ask our friend , Fred , to help programming for me and then I could put my focus on all the documentation and the communications. Fred did share a greate part of coding and I finally had a good big breathe.


Some day, I am asked to have a oral exam to test if my English is good enough to be the speaker of the System Education. I went to my friend's home and had the exam with the project team members, such as Clara. After the exam, everyone was laughing. Not because my poor English, but because the parents of my friend raised some chickens and the call of the chickens was so loudly that they all heard the sound through skype. XD

There is another thing interesting. When I started to talk about Belize, I found saversal people who known or have been to Belize. It quite surprised me. Belize seems to be not so far in this way.


It's also quite amazing that some friend of mine (but not so familiar) went to Belize as a voluntee for the same project. I tried to reach her. Through her blog, I know much more about Belize, Belmopan...


2006/7/26. It's my 29th birthday.

2006/7/27. I took the plane to Belize.