Accidental Tourists
Like many of the 300.000 Japanese that every year travel to Spain like tourists, the Princes also arrived at Tokyo with the learned lesson, the information read and knowing beforehand the characteristics the society that were going to visit with the purpose of being prepared in the programmed contacts. In their first 48 hours in Japan, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have made a course intensive of japoneidad but to pains they have stepped on the street. From the hotel to the embassy of Spain, from the hotel to the imperial palace, of floor 11 from the hotel to the cellar to receive to the Spanish colectivity and from the hotel to the train Bala to travel to Nagoya, the capital of Aichi, province that name gives to the Expo 2005, shows international that the Princes will cross today, Sunday.
TOGETHER ALWAYS. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia in the reception to the Spanish colony of Japan, yesterday
The Princes are, in their business trips, a species of accidental tourists who see the cities through the window of the car, but which they must know them beforehand although she is of virtual way to be able to speak with their interlocutors with cause knowledge. For that reason, although they have not seen the enormous building of Zara in the heat of district of Ginza, nor the stores of Lladró, Camper or of Adolph Domínguez, they must know and to proclaim with pride, since the Prince did before the Spaniards of Tokyo, that some of the most known companies Spanish have put their goad in Tokyo and other cities of Japan, following yesterday the wake of Loewe, whose logotipo is considered by the Japanese does not go more of the luxury and that is one of the reasons for which they peregrinate until Spain in search of a reasonable price the more for those objects of desire that in the stores of Japan reach astronomical numbers when adding the tax of luxury.
Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have not taken a walk by Tokyo, but Tokyo has taken a walk by them. The trip of the Princes has been programmed with a calculated austerity, as minimalista as the own Japanese society. Nothing of ceremonies of the tea, neither visits the temples, nor concessions to the gallery, since the inheriting princes of Denmark and Holland did in their day, who also traveled to Japan with the objective to visit the pavilions of their respective countries in the Expo de Aichi, but that to their pass by the empire of crisantemo gave to the international photographers their more worldly image .
The Princes have been followed until Tokyo by a nourished group of agencies of Spanish photos and of image that has been united to the international agencies that operate in Tokyo, to the hunting all of the best photo of the pregnant Princess, an image that at the moment enjoys the highest quotation and than the magazines they pay to price of gold. In all the acts, Doña Letizia literally has been asaetada by the flashes whenever her hand has taken to the hair or has done any gesture, by insignificant think she do, deserving of a photo. The past Friday, in the seat of the embassy of Spain, even the Prince had to stop to pronounce his speech whenever the sound and the light of tens of cameras and flashes broke the atmosphere. As much it was thus, that yesterday, Saturday, while Don Felipe, with the Princess alongside, spoke to the representatives of the Spanish colony to whom they offered a reception, Doña Letizia one stayed immovable and impassible to avoid that most imperceptible of her gestures that involuntarily caused a new alluvium of photographic firings. In these conditions it is difficult that the message surpasses the immediacy of the image, nor so at least would not be necessary that the Princes left house.
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