Archive for September, 2003

Arrived in Hiroshima

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

We’ve just arrived at the youth hostel in Hiroshima, and on first impressions everything seems nice, though not quite so cosy as the Kyoto hostel. We’re going to head into town this evening to eat dinner and have a quick shufty.

My camera now has a new 128MB memory card due to me losing my argument with Windows ME in the last internet cafe. I was less than amused. Need to find an internet cafe again though, as I’m pretty sure that I’ll have filled up this new memory card by the end of this leg as well.

Oh – peach flavour Qoo rocks. ’nuff said.

Alive and kicking…

Friday, September 26th, 2003

We’ve arrived in Kyoto now, and it’s very pretty.
Any worries about our health given the recent earthquake in Japan should remember that Japan is a fairly big country. It was near Hokkaido and the northern end of Honshu. Being in the south, I didn’t feel it at all.
The only thing that sucks about Kyoto is the ‘net access here is primitive and I can’t take pictures off my camera. Time to have a chat with the PC… ^-^

Tokyo…

Sunday, September 14th, 2003

So we’ve spent two days in Tokyo now… and everything’s hunky dory.

Yesterday we spent in Akihabara, shopping for cute and other things. That was fun, though rather hard on the old feet (everything’s stairs here, and most shops have 6 or 7 floors – so far, anyway). I bought a couple of artbooks and a few OSTs, and then cut meself off before I spent anything else.

Today we went to Shinjuku shopping (again), and I found my digital camera that I wanted. I bought it second hand, even though it’s almost too new to be in the States, let alone the UK. It’s a Fujifilm FinePix S5000 – and it’s lovely.

Uh. Nothing more to report, except that it’s quite warm here. Apparently a vicious typhoon had the potential to kill Anthony (my friend near Fukuoka) a day or so ago, though apparently it blew a little and rained a bit ;-) Oh, and NatWest want to block my card because they’re monkeys. Got to ring them today.

Expect photos soon!

Leaving, on a jet plane…

Wednesday, September 10th, 2003

Back 9th October.
I might post before then – anything’s possible.