Our Grand Japan 2025 vacation is over 😭

Iustin Pop
2025-08-01 05:30

As I’m writing this, we’re one hour away from landing, and thus our Grand (with a capital G for sure) Japan 2025 vacation is over. Planning started about nine months ago, plane tickets bought six months in advance, most hotels booked about four months ahead, and then a wonderful, even if a bit packed, almost 3 weeks in Japan. And now we’re left with lots of good memories, some mishaps that we’re going to laugh about in a few months’s time, and quite a few thousand pictures to process and filter, so that so they can be viewed in a single session.

Oh, and I’m also left with a nice bottle of plum wine, thanks to inflight shopping. Was planning to, but didn’t manage to buy one in the airport, as Haneda International departures, after the security check, is a bit small. But in 15 hours of flying, there was enough time to implement 2 tiny Corydalis features, and browse the shopping catalog 😁. I only learned on the flight that some items need to be preordered, a lesson for next time…

Thanks to the wonders of inflight internet, I can write and publish this, but it not being StarLink, Visual Studio Code managed to download an update for the UI, but now the remote server package is too big? slow? and can’t be downloaded. Well, it started download 5 times, and aborted at about 80% each time. Well, thankful my blog is lightweight and I can write it in vi and push it 😎. And pushing the above-mentioned features to GitHub was also possible.

A proper blog post will follow, once I can select some pictures and manage to condense three weeks in an overall summary… And in the meantime, back to the real world!