A confusing day!

Our first day was confusing and pretty much consisted of travelling. It was a 3:45 a.m. alarm call to catch the shuttle to the airport in Manchester for our first hop to London. That all went without a hitch.

We boarded our flights to Tokyo on time via a bus but then sat around for about an hour while the engineers fixture minor fault and offloaded some cargo. We eventually left at around 10:00 a.m. about 1 hour late.

We spent the rest of the day and overnight heading east and landed on Tuesday morning about 13 hours after we left London to a wet and rainy Tokyo.Read more