Hotel Palm Royal Naha
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The Good, The Bad and the Tugly
... so our only choice was to return to our “favourite” hostel and hope they had space.
Graeme and I jumped in a cab and away we went. The only trouble was that we had relied on Bryan and his GPS guidance system to get us there in the first place so we didn’t know how to direct the driver back to the hostel. In addition he spoke absolutely no English. Luckily, Graeme had remembered it was near a giant pachinko sign and we drove around until we ...
Finding Nemo
... All of this was for a fee but I think we got good value. The variety of fish and coral we saw was astounding. We even got to swim with a couple of sea turtles!
We were back just about noon and had a meal at another local establishment. Graeme and Bryan headed out to another beach for more snorkeling but I was wiped from the morning’s dive and slept for a few hours.
When the guys got back we set off up the street for our dinner.
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Sayonara, Japan!
... He will return to the US in a few months, so that makes it a bit easier to say good-bye. It was precious time together this week. Now we are in the room trying to get everything bag into our allotted luggage. Tomorrow morning, it is off to Naha to drop off our little Japanese car and get to the airport. We will fly to Seoul where we will have a three-hour layover. Then, we are on to Beijing to see Shekar’s cousins. ...
Shisa, Bingata, and School Life
... a peanut butter “donut” for breakfast. Then, we drove north to pick up our new Okinawan friend, Dibbie. Dibbie took us to lunch at Ryukyu Mura (http://okinawahai.com/2007/11/ryukyu-m ura.html). To order your lunch, you enter money into a vending machine and punch a button of the item you want to order. Then, you are given a ticket which is given to ...
Royalty
... boss who immediately, and politely, informed us, "Speak English only little but help." From him, we found out that we were still in Ginowin, needed to go to Okinawa City, we were lost and we needed to go "far far -here not ok". Armed with that less than helpful information and well wishes, we headed off. In Okinawa City, once again lost in the now dark city, we stopped at a convenience store. The clerk - not speaking ...