Kanpo no Yado Itako
Travel Blogs from Itako
Just laying over
Just doing a lay over in Narita airport. I'm actually a little bummed I didn't stay a few days here, oh well. Next trip!
PS: Bathrooms were nice and clean!
PSS: I saw Ponch from CHiPs at LAX. You know? That cop show from the 80's. Erik Estrada? He was on the way to Atlanta though.
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9 times in Japan, still haven't left the airport
My flight from Los Angeles to Singapore is aboard an A380, the enormous double decker from Airbus. We are just 2 weeks shy of the 5th anniversary of the first commercial A380 flight, on Singapore Airlines. So they are strutting their stuff about it. I have to say, it was a VERY nice ride - comfortable seats, good food, tons of choices for entertainment ...
Flight / Narita Airport
Flight was on time and once onboard we were not sitting around very long before we were off.
The first couple of hours of the flight was fine, we watched some movies/TV shows on our iPad and the Macbook. We played some games on the iPhone. We certainly had enough to amuse ourselves with. We also brought a heap of snacks. I was very impressed to find that they now have powered USB ports at every seat so you can charge your iPhones and iPads, so you never have ...
Our Last day In Tokyo
It was our last day and we decided to have a chilled day so we could gather some strength for the flight and Hong Kong. We decided to go back to Harajuku to buy some small Japanesey souvenirs from Kiddyland (I got a little Miffy jack plug in for my phone, taking pride of place this very moment and a Bambi notebook :D) but not before we had breakfast- which was a mission in itself! After discovering a bakery in Kyoto doing lovely ...
Tokyo!!!!! ...for one hour...and getting to Bangko
... the tourists who skipped that last 5 baht...
Me (showing the taxi driver our Thai address): How much to go to this address? (Completely forgetting that you SHOULD ask for them to use the meter).
Taxi driver: 100 Baht ($3.34).
Me:(remembering just in time) Can we use the meter?
Taxi driver: Meter? (Nods smiling uncertainly)
We get in (my FIRST TAXI RIDE EVER!!!!!!!!!!) and experience a death defying ride around the city and finally ending up at Khosaban Bahn ...