Västerås

Hi! In this post I'll show you some pictures of Västerås, in Sweden.
It is not much to say about this small city east of Stockholm.
Anyway, I could make some nice picture of Sweden's winter.


Västerås, river and church

This is the main church in Västerås, the view is from a park behind the church.


Västerås the old town

This is the old part of the city. In the old red houses there are now many shops and artisan workshops.



The frozen Lake Mälaren

Well this picture is quite impressive. The Mälaren is a huge lake, some hundreds km wide from Stockholm to the inner part of Sweden. In winter is completely frozen as you see from the picture.

Japanese Castles

I will show some pictures of Japanese Castles, the ones of you that likes samurai and manga will surely will like these pictures!

First of all, there's something to say. Unfortunately most of Japanese castles have been destroyed either at the end of the samurai era or during the WWII. Let's start with one of the few original castle.

松本　Matsumoto



Matsumoto 's castle is one of the few original castle in Japan and it's of course a Japanese National Treasure. It's completely made of wood, in order to enter you have to take off your shoes. From the top of the castle you can see a very beautiful view of the city of Matsumoto and the Japanese Alps.


高島　Takashima


This castle is in Suwa and it's a small one but with a very nice garden. The original was destroyed at the end of the samurai era. But people in Suwa missed their landmark so they rebuild in the '60.


名古屋　Nagoya



This castle was rebuild after the WWII. It was the castle of the Tokugawa, the shogun dinasty that ruled Japan until the Meji era. As you can imagine is really big and impressive.



The two golden daulphins are the only part of the castle that was saved from the fire.

大阪　Osaka



Finally Osaka's castle also a very big one and again not original but rebuilt after WWWII.

From my appartment

Well, here are some pictures taken in my appartment... don't know if they're intereasting but some of you have asked for them... so here day are! Pictures aren't so good because I took them with my mobile phone (still waiting for my digital camera to arrive from Japan...)





This is me in my favourite sofa!


This is taken from my balcony, in a sunny saturday morning :-)



And this last one is the entrance room of the appartment. Well that's it for now! Satisfied? ;-)