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The Traffic Circle (Old Town in Orange-California)

Hi there! I just arrived yesterday to Orange county California, I flied from Barcelover to Munich and from there to Los Angeles...about 17 hours in total travelin

The plane passed by Iceland and then Greenland and Canada! Greenland has some amazing landscape...Not a place really where one would want to live for a long time I guess.

I think I have discovered a good way to scape from "jetlag" and it consist in not getting a wink the night before leaving and stay all night awaken and making the luggage to the very last minutte, this way you are so tired that you sleep easier on the plane and by the time you reach to destination you are not that tired...Besides, this is a good trick too for those who are afraid to travel by airplane...You are so tired that you almost give a damn about the plane falling.

Today morning after breakfast and lunch I went to the old part of Orange, here known as "The Circle"...People here calls it the "old part" but is actually only 100 hundred years old which for americans could be the equivalent to what europens consider middle ages times!

The Circle to me It's like the Mecca of antiques...Specially american antiques, there's plenty of shops where they sell all kinds of antiques, and there's a few good bars and restaurants where to eat some fine food! People is quite friendly and seem interested to know where I "Clunynger-z" come from...Poor fellows... From Japan! Where else if not. Kon ni chi va? Arigato, tori-teriyaki.

I met a guy today at a cool art gallery where they had paintings, glass and wood, and the groove thing about it was that he went in the 2000 year (The same year I was living there) to Inishturk island in Ireland!

Inishturk island for those who don't know (that means the vast majority) is a really small island in the west coast of Ireland, just between two more islands called "Inishboffin"and "Clare island" populated by only 75 people! (You can't get mad to anyone in a place like this). When I got there I remember there was nobody anywhere...People seemed to have been evaporeted! A ghost island!

After walking for a while, I suddenly found severel people playing football (socker) and many more watching the game...So after counting them all I realized that almost the whole island was there! Can you believe? When the game was over they all went to the only pub in the island and I went with them too...The pub was so fool that anybody else could hardly get in!

I remember a huge lobster in a frame on the wall, like a trophy...It was definitively the biggest one I've ever seen...I hearded on the ferry in it's way to the island that some other small island near there use to be owned by John Lennon, and now by Yoko Ono...

Someone told me too that Inishturk is the less turistical island of the three.

So that's it, if you guys ever want to be somewhere special... go to Inishturk! But don't tell anybody else you bastards.