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Travel Blogs from Naha
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
... 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
... of English - tried so hard to help. He finally drew us a map with landmarks drawn in. (He realized street names are not helpful to us as we can't read.) We were relieved to see our hotel. We ate some nuts we had in our suitcase and were soon sound asleep. Monday will be a quiet day of study and rest. We will pick up Josh for dinner in the evening but are planning nothing more than figuring out how to get some food on our own. ...