Hi all, Today was a very relaxed day and we didn't do too much. John went to work in the afternoon so we took a trip to Kamiooka with him to see where he works. When we got back to Kamazowa Bunko where John lives, Faz and I braved the supermarket on our own so we could cook John a nice English meal for his birthday (or at least as English as you can get with Japanese ingredients)! The supermarket trip was very interesting and took a little while. Our biggest...

Hey. This morning we spent a fair bit of time lazing around in John's apartment and catching up with all the things that have been happening in the UK without him. We then went shopping for food in the local supermarket which was one hell of an experience! It is so difficult to tell what anything is - all the writing is unsurprisingly written in Japanese, most liquids look the same and the pictures on the packaging do not tend to help either. Fruit is very ex...

Hi All. Well, Faz and I arrived in Japan on Monday morning. Faz thinks I should get a certificate for managing so well on the flight. My first words as we took off were a whispered 'f"""ing helllllll! before I realised that it wasn't all that bad and that you had quite a nice view when the plane banked. I went a bit white when we first went through turbulence about 7 or 8 hours in - the sharp ups and downs were a bit too uppy and downy for my l...