Breezbay Yokohama

So sind jetzt in Yokohama - besser gesagt shin-yokohama gelandet. Sehr nett hier, haben allerdings nicht viel davon gesehen, weil wir gleich weiter zum Vereinbarten Treffpunkt mit Bixi und Steffi aufgebrochen sind. Lange gewartet, keine Bixi keine Steffi...
Na zum Glück haben wir uns doch noch getroffen! Jaaa im BIG Tokyo sind wir uns praktisch über den Weg gelaufen von einer Brückenbreite zur anderen rübergebr ...

The decision we had to make this morning was whether we were going to make the trek to Hakone, or whether we were just going to have another exploration day. We had a look at the different activities in Hakone, and we decided that 2 days would probably be enough to cover what we want to do there, so we chose to have another quiet day. There is apparently museums and nature walks all around Hakone which could easily take up a few days by themselves, but I ...

... part are very consoiderate of one another. Okay and then from there........woah. I wandered the streets until I got to the giant ferris wheel, then went into some mall and went into the subway station at Minobashu?? I had a little Passmo fiasco and had to pay for a ticket I didnt need but hey the train went to Shibuya....and I was at least familiar with that station so there ya go. I went and bought a spider tripod and a optical mouse for my friend Emi ...

... were so lovely also, they smiled a lot and really appreciated my effort at speaking their language, so it just encouraged me to try harder. I had lots of fun doing it. Tokyo is one eclectic, bright, hyper-active, pulsing city. Clichés or images you may have of Tokyo are often real and it's so incredible to see! Blindingly bright lights illuminate the night. Teens dress outlandishly. We saw a girl dressed like Little Red Riding Hood ...

... Or maybe eggs were attached to some food or timber, and hatched here. These days with global warming and climate change Yokohama may be just as good as Okinawa for the snake", I offered my guess, off the top of my head. Mr Shirokawa's house was only a few blocks away from where we had met. I was greeted by a middle-aged woman. "The snake photo, the snake photo", Mr S told the woman, removed his shoes ...

... 3 people to a row in stead of 4, which room in between EACH seat! Wawawewa! We made one stop for a squatty potty & more snacks before arriving in the dark around 10PM in Yonago. Bags on back on front, we walked to her friend Sai's apartment so I could borrow a bicycle and then continued on to her place. All-in-all, it took about 40 minutes. The style of bicycles here are just like the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz ...

... firms if I could work on an ad-hoc basis, and applying for a few embassy jobs (Thailand and Singapore) and a volunteer interpreter on Peaceboat - a three-month voyage 'teaching messages of democracy and peace'. Early this week I had one interview at a cram school. The manager did not like me from the start and told me that I needed to learn the Japanese common customs. He did not like the way I sat, placed my legs. He pointed out that I should ...

... good on him for his stamina! ............................. KYOTO: We are planning to go and see loads in Kyoto over the next 2 days: The imperial palace and it's grounds, the National Kyoto museum, a temple called Nanzen-ji, Nijo-jo which is a castle and has really old grounds (it was also where a really, really old imperial palace was originally built and some remains are still standing), it has 'nightingale' flooring, which 'sing ...

... of a tour group, we've both been assigned roommates. Neither had arrived yet, so, having dodged a rather heavy thunderstorm that did nothing to alleviate the hot, humid temperature, we headed out again to check out a nearby temple, before grabbing some sleep to try and get over the 9 hour time difference.

We met up with our tour leader and the rest of our tour group for dinner. Everyone seems lovely, but sadly we couldn't sit together because of the way the seating worked at the ...

... track inside the centre. Pretty cool and Dave booked a slot to test drive some car later. Went for a little walk outside and took some photos of the futuristic looking Fuji-TV building before heading for some lunch at a place we had seen earlier. On the way we saw a shop which looked like you could rent a dog for the day! Weird. Went back to the Toyota centre to test drive the car. Didn't work out because Dave didn't have an international driving licence. Dave was livid ! Lets ...