Hi all, Last blog as we are packed and ready to leave for 2morrow and head on home to see you all Had a nice couple of days we visited the Imperial Palace - which was very relaxing and pleasent - big walls and moats, we also went to Meiji Jingu Temple in ZoZogi park which was reallz great - very peaceful and relaxing The temple in the pciture was also on the itinerz and was superb we made a few purchases in the market leading up to the temple and this felt li...

hi all - added photos' from China trip - took 1hr to upload - these are a sample of the ones owen has been generally snapping at Been shopping yesterday - very expensive shops watches 2000000 yen 100,000 - security guards on doors, then went to manga comic festival - really great - fantatstic artwork. was going to fish maarket this morning but rain here at present. will wait to see what Owen has planned for rest of the day

Hi all, had a great day out yesterday at Tokyo Dome - a theme park where baseball is played, some great rides - rollercoaster on top of building, parchute ride, inverted rollercoaster and 4d horror show, shopping complex spent nearly all day there. Park not very busy so had lots of rides - boys went on rollercoaster about 10 times Japan is very different to China - underground lots more lines (5 in china) about 20 here and different fares where in China one fa...

Hi all, just found all your messages - really great Just to update you further - Went to Great Wall - fantastic - walked 2km of it, got a cable car up to the wall and then had a toboggan ride back down, really hot and clear day Rowing - Trudy really enjoyed seeing the best rower every win his gold in the aussie pair boat - mr. Ginn - he look great - showed what good technique can do for you, then we saw the brute force of the GB four - whoa 2 total different st...

Arrived safely in Tokyo - yesterday after our olympic experience in Beijing, landed at airport and had a 40-50 mile train journey to hotel, arrived after midnight. Hotel fantastic bedroom on 29th floor looks over city - fantastic views night and day Went up to electronic area of city to do some shopping, fantastic sites/shops/equipment. Been to tokyo tower tonight and had a meal at bottom of the tower - really nice. Japan is more expensive than Beijing Tomo...