So we left our apartment at 5.40am on Monday morning, arrived at Kansai Airport a little over 2 hours later, 3.5 hour flight to Beijing (3 degrees celcius, smoggy and wet), got shouted at by some security people (scary after becoming accustomed to ultra-polite Japan) and put our baggage through the check while the security […]
Archive for March, 2007
Tokyo Travels by Joss on Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Hola. It’s 10pm and from tomorrow we’ll be in a country of people with olive coloured skin and black hair who speak a different language to us. Yes indeed, we leave for Rome at 5.40am for Dudley and Barb’s wedding. Excited! The trip doubles as our honeymoon and enlarges our carbon imprint horrifically. Pete and […]
Travels, Stuff & Things by Joss on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Hola. We got back from Okinawa on Sunday March 4th, then Pete & Sinead arrived from Belfast via Dublin, London, Dubai and Kansai a few hours later. For their first couple of days I was busy during the day. At the beginning of March every year, the Rock Commune have the Oikon, a two day […]
Mensoore by Joss on Friday, March 9th, 2007
Mum and Pat arrived on the 27th, utterly knackered. They’d slept one hour before leaving due to a stolen car, hadn’t slept on the plane and hadn’t liked the plane food. The rest of the day was mostly napping and eating - Giita made lovely foods - before we set off for the airport the […]
Castle-ing by Joss on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Sorry for the infrequent updates. We’ve been frantically touristing this past while. I missed out on posting Deirdre’s prized Geisha pictures last time from their trip with Giita to Gion…
Our last big jaunt with Simone and Joe before they had to head back home was to Himeji Castle, a 2 hour train journey away along […]