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Posted on December 7, 2007 @ 8:00 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, japan, travel, wordpress

hotelcombined tokyo aynaku travel illustration

Lousy hotels are familiar to long term travellers. At Maharaja Palace, a third class Tokyo pension house, it happened to me to wake up in the middle of the night and find out that a bunch of cockroaches were actually going for a stroll upon my body…the nasty little things!
Times are changing and the Internet definitely helps people who like travelling on a shoestring.
HotelsCombined.com. is a start up, but it is already experiencing phenomenal growth. It is a unique comparison website which searches over 30 top travel sites at once to find the best rate and displays information on one easy-to-navigate page. It helps independent travellers to find the lowest rate instantly and save time, since they don’t have to go to all other travel sites one by one to compare the rates…and forget cockroaches!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: the little things

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Gorgeous piece even with the ‘lil critters…

get zapped wrote on December 7, 2007 - 9:23 pm CET

Che esperienza terribile! l’hai resa benissimo nella tua illustrazione.
Grazie del tuo feedback sul mio blog, no non uso Illustrator (molto costoso!) ma PowerPoint di Office, mi piacerebbe dotarmi di qualche strumento più potente che mi supporti meglio nel realizzare anmimazioni flash.
Se ti va fammi sapere cosa utilizzi per i tuoi lavori.
Ciao Faruffa

Faruffa wrote on December 8, 2007 - 1:49 pm CET

Ciao è tanto tempo che non passavo di qui, spero che tu stia bene
io stò lavorando parecchio e ne sono contenta :)
(piccoli ma non tanto simpatici gli animaletti del tuo post!!!)
un caro saluto
frà

frà wrote on December 8, 2007 - 3:14 pm CET

Yikes! That would wake me up for sure. ;-)

Willie wrote on December 8, 2007 - 6:28 pm CET

Arghhh!!! That’s so awful, Massimo. I don’t like cockroaches at all! I’m so sorry you have experienced that. Yikes!

You illo is terrific, though ;)

pati @-;– wrote on December 8, 2007 - 7:05 pm CET

Yikes, well I hate to say this but I live in the woods and I walk through them every day and we get ticks. I tend to think they are worse because they attach them selves and suck your blood… So even though I would’nt like to have roaches, they don’t totally creep me out. here in the woods you don’t get cockroaches but a beetle that looks similar and somehow they don’t seem so bad. When in the city, bugs tend to creep out everybody… We get tons of spiders too. All bugs are cool, just not in the bed. I love your illo bugs and all!!!

valgalart wrote on December 8, 2007 - 8:57 pm CET

yuk cockcroaches!

they have a beautiful terrace by the way, or is it just your own design?

isay wrote on December 9, 2007 - 12:20 pm CET

Molto spiritoso!

Nicole F wrote on December 10, 2007 - 9:14 pm CET

well done… i have missed your tales and illustrations from around the world…

Michael O’Connell wrote on December 12, 2007 - 3:32 am CET

Great illo, but it creeps me out a little bit. Spiders EWWW.
love

The Unknown wrote on December 15, 2007 - 8:39 pm CET

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