There is an ongoing spat between China and Japan lingering from WWII that means there are very few airlines that can fly from Tokyo to Beijing. Unfortunately for me, Cathay Pacific was not one. So I flew back to Honkers (3.5 hours) waited in the airport for 4 hours and then flew to Tokyo (4 hours) So all up 11.5 hours for what is in fact a 2 hour flight. But I am here so i cant complain.
I stayed as usual at the Holiday in at narita on the night I arrived and got into a corker of a discussion with an american and a dutch Geo-physist (I know thats not the right spelling) about their program the were doing to detect and verify nuclear bomb testing. Really interesting stuff. Amazing what discussions you will end up in after 12 hours of not speaking to anyone.
Come Monday morning and I went back to the hotel to meet up with my travelling group, talk about multi-national! We had 1 Canadian, 1 slovenian, 1 russian, 1 brazillian, 1 Australian, 2 frenchies, and a belge. Quite a fun mix. We set off in the rental cars and decided to take the "scenic" coastal road as we had heaps of time. It was not in the slightest bit scenic. In fact, we had to pull off the road and bush bash out way into the beach. But it was worth it!
Most of pulled the boots off and headed in to the water for a bit of a wade around and it was great. Some nice waves coming through, and the water wasn't too cold. We probably spent half an hour on the beach and it was a nice break to the trip. We arrived into Motegi around 5pm, just in time for the bar to open, Perfect!
We had a big night at the "embassy and pulled in around midnight, very tired and relieved to be in bed.
1 comment:
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U r in Japan!! very jealous!!
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