A confusing day!
3月25日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 8 °COur 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もっと詳しく
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もっと詳しく
After a bit of a queue for immigration (and Ed being questioned about his passport... Seemingly linked to the ones that we had stolen in Barcelona) we took some advice and caught the airport limousineもっと詳しく
Despite an early night, sleep wasn't great and so we were awake early!
Breakfast of muesli and a Japanese omelette along with a bacon joint and sausage was gratefully received before we headed outもっと詳しく
Next stop was the old temples at Asakusa. It was very very busy and we saw the temple which had been mostly reconstructed after being destroyed in world war II. We left the tour at this point andもっと詳しく
We took the metro to the Skytree and spent ages trying to find the entrance. We could see that we needed to change our voucher for a ticket at 4pm so had a quick cheap meal of noodles in the foodもっと詳しく
After breakfast we left the hotel and caught the subway to a station to meet a small group walking tour of the old fishmarket area, a cluster of small roads which when we walked amongst them wereもっと詳しく
Our next stop saw us catching the underground and heading to Shibuy... mainly famous for the incredibly busy crossing at the crossroads of four roads.
Having watching the hoardes cruising the roadもっと詳しく
Another fitful night of sleep and winding if I'll ever shake off this jet lag.
The weather this morning when we woke was wet and very windy... Very similar to what we might have expected at home.もっと詳しく
I think we learnt a very important lesson today... Japanese people eat very early... But more of that to come.
We had an early ish start And went for breakfast which was Japanese style. Now whilstもっと詳しく
Next we took a different tourist bus along the lake to the Wind cave which was formed from lava flows. They used to use the cave for storage before freezers came along and there was ice in the caveもっと詳しく