In Japan Again

Posted on 2006/04/02 15:12:26 (April 2006).

[Sunday 2nd April]
My flight landed at Tokyo Narita around 9AM. This is now something like the 10th time I have landed in Japan, what with all my trips before I was living here, plus a certain amount of going away and coming back for business/holidays since I've taken up residence. The routine is now a very familiar one.

So I managed to get through immigration / baggage reclaim / customs etc pretty quickly, comparatively speaking, and was on a train leaving the airport within an hour of having landed. My bags were quite heavy, and I was really tired having not slept at all, so it was quite a strain to get back from the aiport to my apartment. Anyway, I had got through the door by about 11:30, only to find Chie still asleep!

I have no discipline when it comes to dealing with jetlag - people say you should stay awake until the normal time to go to bed at your destination, but given that I can never sleep on the plane, I'm generally like a zombie by the time I arrive. So not long after getting back I had the classic "little nap" which turned into about 5 or 6 hours.

Chie woke me up for dinner, and I then spent the rest of the evening just lolling around the flat, and realised although I'd had a great time in the UK, it was also nice to be back here.

Oh I forgot to mention the cherry blossom! It seems I got back just in time...

Posted by John at 2006/04/03 12:34:25.

Lucky bastard! I didn't manage to get the full bloom, just a bit of spot cherry blossoms every now and then... Oh well, maybe I'll be luckier next time!

Posted by Lox at 2006/04/03 13:10:24.

Well I'm only getting the end of it really...

Posted by John at 2006/04/03 13:51:21.

Out of interest John, it seems I *can* post to the blog pages, just not the main Maison Daily... Hmmm!

This all down to the new security software we have in place at work now :(

Posted by Nigel at 2006/04/05 11:21:10.

Nigel - well that suggests to me there must be a way round it then! Maybe it is because the blog system we use is .cgi files, and the message board is .pl files...?

Posted by John at 2006/04/05 11:53:29.

Yes, John, that's certainly most likely. The new barrier rejects the pl - not just the Maison. I was surprised it accepted the cgi...

Posted by Nigel at 2006/04/05 14:37:55.

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