※スペイン、バルセロナで目撃した欧州金融危機関連のデモ
It happened when I decided to stay in Turin in a hurry during this GW trip. It was May 7th, and I received a message from a twitter follower.
« Is the city still all Juventus?
At the time, I was honestly like, « What? at that time.
Apparently, this is what happened.
サッカー＝ユベントスが優勝、長友のインテルはダービー制す | スポーツ | Reuters http://jp.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idJPTYE84601420120507
No, not at all, the city of Turin didn’t feel like that.
It is true that the hotel was a little out of the city center, but it was still within walking distance to the Royal Palace in less than 10 minutes. After dinner, we walked around the center of the city and its surroundings, and even though we had been standing there for a day, there was no atmosphere of celebrating such a victory at all.
Well, let’s change places, this time to Barcelona.
Watching F1 was the most important purpose of this trip. I took a hotel on the side of Passeig de Gracia, where the downtown of Barcelona is located. I thought it would be all about F1, but it wasn’t like that at all.
On the contrary, I couldn’t even find anything related to F1 at all. I didn’t even see anyone wearing the team uniforms when I walked around town.
It’s the same at the station.
As expected, there were F1 spectators on the platform where the trains to the circuit arrive and depart, but the platform was only overflowing on the final day of the race. There were only a few spectators at the qualifying session the day before.
Japan, on the other hand.
The news of the past few days has been the arrest of the suspect, Naoko Kikuchi, and Kagawa’s transfer to Man U.
I don’t know how it’s being reported on TV, but I’m sure it’s getting a lot of weight.
It’s been more than a few years since the TV went out of our house, but what I think especially since the TV went out of our house is that I’m not familiar with sports news anymore.
Sports news is something you don’t know about unless you have a strong interest in it and go for it.
It’s not that I’m confirming the proper source because it’s information that was flowing on twitter, but it seems that a certain station’s wide show program covered the Yakitori restaurant that the suspect Naoko Kikuchi often went to.
So I asked, « What did you order? » « Was it tare or shio? » They showed a video of an interview with him.
To which I say, « Idiot! » « Nonsense! » « It’s stupid! » « You should report something else!
I’m sure Japanese people have a slightly stronger tendency to want to talk about the same topics as everyone else.
So maybe the influence of TV and newspapers is bigger than I thought.
In any case, they tend to want to talk about it, whether it’s positive or negative, I feel like.
It’s not that the whole town in Japan is filled with the same kind of news, but in Europe, it’s probably especially noticeable.
When the World Cup was held in Germany in the past, I imagined without even going there that it would not be like the usual Germany, a quiet city with medieval towns, classical music, and a lot of soccer during the event.
In that sense, I was relieved that the Barcelona I visited this time was the same as usual.
This is Europe, where people of many races and classes abound. This may be the standard.
There will probably be some excitement in London in the future because of the Olympics, but I think that London will maintain its normal atmosphere.
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