A business trip to Spain

I came back from a business trip to Barcelona a few days ago. I spent a week there most of the time eating sandwiches (Bocadillo) with Spanish cured ham (Jamón Serrano), visiting Antoni Gaudi's constructions including Sagrada Familia, Park Güell and Casa Milá. Sounds like a sight seeing tour? Actually, I had meetings every day for a few hours but I had had worked out most of materials in Japan and I needed to just keep thinking in the remaining time. Eating and seeing stimulates thinking and they often bring better results than just being "serious" like most of my country men. (Women are more liberated.) Walking around these places,  I saw surprisingly few Japanese tourists in this time. In practice, more than 90 % of asian tourists I had met were Chinese or Koreans. Rapidly weekend Yen against Euro may be an immediate reason. As a background, there is a long term shrinkage of Japanese economics and a tendency of young people who are reluctant to going out of the country. I had been thinking the later background was a result of the former. However, I am shocked by my own impressions that, surrounded by and chatting with non-Japanese asians, we are not welcomed to be among them. I had never gotten this feeling before around 5 years ago.

My MacBookPro arrived

But I am too much involved in a pile of jobs and I'll not open the box until I finish them.