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The Good, The Bad and the Tugly
... on this weekend and the streets were filled with people who had flown in from all over and a very large number of Americans who are stationed at the huge military base situated here.
THE BAD:
Bryan returns to Canada the day after we were scheduled to fly to Beijing so he returned to the “lousy“ hostel for the single night stay.
Graeme and I bade him a sad farewell and were driven the short trip to the airport by the hostel manager (for ...
Finding Nemo
October 3-5, 2012
Catching a ferry at noon we left Miyajima and made our way to the Hiroshima airport for our flight to Okinawa. Like most cities the airport was a substantial distance from the city centre and it took us almost an hour to get there by bus. In total the journey from Miyajima to Naha , Okinawa involved a ferry, train, bus and plane and took 5 hours.
A monorail took us to the port area where we found our hostel stay ...
Sayonara, Japan!
This was our last full day in Japan. I had class via internet in the morning so we headed out for an early lunch after that. We ate at the local Italian restaurant where I had some amazing eggplant curry. (I know – it makes no sense that I ate Indian food at the Italian restaurant in Japan, but that is the way it was!) Then, we had some time to kill before Josh got off work. We went back to the American Village ...
Shisa, Bingata, and School Life
... Thankfully, Dibbie was able to help us decide what to order. (No, we have not yet mastered Japanese.) Shekar and Dibbie had the Okinawan delicacy, Taco Rice. I had traditional noodles and rice – served with sea grape salad. (I am starting to get the hang of using chopsticks and slurping noodles!) After we ate, we went into the village to see the history ...
Royalty
Our Sunday started out with a visit to the Keystone Nazarene Church - Josh's church home for the past two years. What a warm and gracious group of people! We are so grateful that they have been his family while in Japan. This is an English church and seems to largely composed of military families. We got to take a field trip with Josh and his friends to the local FamilyMart (like 7-11) for breakfast. Evidently, this is ...