To bed at 3am, and waking up before 7am this morning, the total number of hours I've slept since Wednesday morning is still in single figures. Sleep is overrated. After the girls woke up, we all headed downstairs for the traditional complimentary Toyoko Inn breakfast of miso soup and rice balls. Except it wasn't miso soup, nor was there any rice to be seen. Oddly, breakfast consisted of cold potato, bacon and egg salad (like you would find at any Australian sup...

Its now 2:12am Tokyo time, so factoring in the 2 hour time difference, I've now been awake for 25+ hours. Why on earth am I sitting here writing a blog entry?? I'll keep it short. Probably. The remainder of the flight was excellent. The extra money paid for the business class seats was well worth it. Compared to an economy class flight, the extra room, service and entertainment meant that the trip seemed so much quicker. Truthfully I was a little disappointed w...

Currently, I'm sitting at the pointy end of a Jetstar flight, in the front row of business class, having just finished my juice, lunch, pepsi, cake, coffee, baileys and chocolates. I'm full. And we're less than 90 minutes into the flight. For the first time on a flight I'm happy and comfortable. But more on that later. After finishing last night's blog entry at the F1 motel at about 10:30pm, I set the alarms for 3:45am, and went to bed. We had a taxi booked for...

The trip is officially underway. Japan here we come. Eventually. Firstly, to anyone actually reading this, let me apologise for all of the inevitable typo's. I'll be typing these blog posts up on my trusty Eeepc 901, which is fine except for the fact that the entire keyboard isn't much bigger than a drink coaster, and my fingers aren't what you'd call dainty. I've already used delete key more than all of the other keys combined and I'm only on the 3rd paragraph...

Goin' home. Woke up at 7am on the 22nd. I'll start this entry with a little disclaimer. I found something out about myself at the conclusion of this trip. I cannot sleep on planes. I'm writing this blog at 4pm on the 23rd, and I've had 15 minutes sleep since 7am yesterday. After we check out of the Gimmond Hotel, we are officially homeless, until we arrive back in Australia. We packed all of the bags in the configuration which they are going to be checked in at t...