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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
... travellers.
Our room is tatami style ( no beds, just cushioned mats that you put on the floor). I did have the foresight to bring my camping “Thermarest” and have used it several times so far in our travels.
Having a good 5 hours of sunlight left in the day, we picked up some masks and snorkels and rented some bikes. Zamami is not a big island and we came to a public beach within a kilometer of the main village. ...
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
Wow! It has been two incredible days since I last blogged. Monday was a day for laundry, studying and some rest. In the evening, we met up with Josh for an early dinner. Tuesday, we went to the local stores to look at the Japanese world. We went to their version of a department store, a grocery store, and a hardware store. It was fun to interface with the ...
Royalty
... was, but she only spoke Japanese. She graciously read us the label - in Japanese.
From the castle, we went to a shopping district and wandered the streets and back through a market. We found a booth with musical instruments. Much was unfamiliar and we asked our usual question, "What is it?" (I don't know why we ask that because we can't understand the answer when they tell us!) We never did find the answer ...
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