Grand Hyatt Fukuoka

... On the train back to my hotel from Karatsu, there was a student with either allergies or a cold, and he was really suffering and sniffling away. At one point, we passed rice fields where they were burning the remnants of the last crop, and ...

... the other stuff was!! But glad we did as it was the best noodle soup we have had all trip. Then we decided to be brave and order some other little bits - Rob ordered some chicken skewers, which although this is what it was, we had no idea what part of the chicken it was from as it was hard and crunchy!!!! Lesley then pointed at a few things that could not be identified but thought it might be ...

... Pilzen cremig und mit Fleisch das einen Fettrand hatte, aber sehr dünn geschnitten war - ich tippe mal auf Schwein oder Rind - aber nachdem es andi probiert hat und meinte man schmeckt das Fett nicht hab ichs auch probiert und es war echt sehr sehr gut und man konnte kein fett schmecken...) echt lecker sowas. Der Hauptgang war auch sehr lecker aber der maguru bleibt unvergesslich ^_°

I stayed a few days in this nice and modern city located on Japan southern island before taking a 6h ferry to Korea. To sum up I'd say: Good looking women and good food here. More info in pictures' comments.

Fun stuffs about Japanese and ideas:

1. They drive on the left side of the road. Can somebody explain? That I know, there was no English influence here..
2. You read a magazine from bottom to top (I mean right to left)
3 ...

... tocar, pero nos dio un buen susto porque era enorme. No se si era un aguila o un halcon, se ven mucho en Japon.
Cuando la marea empezo a bajar, a eso de las cinco, grupos de gente se arremangaron los pantalones e intentaron llegar hasta el torii. Nosotras nos esperamos hasta las siete y media, porque ya nos habiamos mojado los pies al mediodia y no nos apetecia esperar a que se nos secaran otra vez. El sol se empezo a poner y el cielo se volvio de un color anaranjado ...

... e bien sur! Nous avons terminés la soirée au Fubar, petit bar branché et fréquenté surtout par les étrangers. 1000￥ l'entrée les vendredis soir et !!Nomihoudai!! Encore et toujours. Excluant la bière...qui est étrangement plus chère au Japon que tout autre alcool forte et shooters. Le lendemain, samedi, c'était journée culturelle à l'école. Je me suis inscrite (c'était gratuit pour les étudiants) à la calligraphie (shodô) et à la cérémonie de thé (sadô). Nous pouvions donc ...

... le persone incontrate, le amicizie fatte, i treni, la gia' citata perfezione di ogni cosa. E soprattutto quella sensazione di trovarsi in un Paese totalmente diverso da qualsiasi altro al mondo, e di essere profondamente ed inevitabilmente un gaijin. Oltre ad un nuovo compagno di viaggio, portero' con me tantissimi bei ricordi: anche se cominciano ad essere tanti, spazio ce n'e' in abbondanza anche per le prossime tappe. A cominciare dalla Corea del Sud, che e' ormai all'orizzonte.

... to say that I just wanted the back and sides tidying up. He did this, but then began cutting the hair on the top of my head as well...thankfully he wasn`t too scissor happy, and did a good job. I was bemused when he gave me a warm, damp towel at the end though (to dab my face with, for some reason), and he continued to stroke the hair off the front and back of my t-shirt even when I was paying, but overall I`d emerged from the barbers ...

... looked out over the sea and thought as the wind and the rain beat upon me, and I began to focus. Calm came over me, and a sense of determination. My thoughts were complex and difficult to repeat here, but I will relate that at the end I was saying to myself: 'I can do this. I can stay. My will is strong enough. My heart can get behind it, and I can make it do so." Then a group of Korean girls came from below deck and moved over to the railing near me. One stuck her head out into the path ...

... Water and tea are served all the time, i.e. unlimited refills, and that at no cost to the customer, not even the first serving. That`s what I call fine service. Well, once they brought the tea and we had drunk half a cup, the brought the first complementary dish. You would not guess in a million years what it was. It was white half transparent slightly curly strips of something that looked like some sort of salad greens. When I ...