Helen Dorsett Hey Adam, just caught up with your blog and it certainly sounds like you are having a ball! Keep up the good communication as it is great to read, along with some decent photo's! I wont talk about work as I am sure you dont want to hear it, but let me know if you do:) Look forward to reading your next entry. Take care

Sunil Yes, eating on the cheap is great, but free is bteetr. My tip for Japan visit an undeground food hall under any department store and you are guaranteed to get full on delicious free samples. Moreover, just before the department stores close, all the gourmet food goes on crazy sale. Mmm, can't wait till we are back there!Also, while travelling through a capital city in a western country, if one picked up an art galery openings guide, they could probably drink and eat for free every night.

Islam If you don't have any credit to begin with you won't get a best one. You'll get the bototm of the barrel one that will most likely charge outrageous interest rates. For a first time credit card, get one at a department store and build your credit this way. Get it built up pretty well until you have a few department store cards and keep a good payment schedule. Give it about 6 months to a year to build up good credit with these cards and then keep paying them off, then charging small amounts and then paying them off again. Do that, don't try getting a major credit card without any credit, you will hate the company or bank you signed on with and yourself for going for it anyways.I did just that and pretty much screwed up my credit, now it's much better.

Jonny Lynch "34A, Straight down there.... 48F, Straight down there."