Just waiting at the hotel for the transfer coach to the airport for our 18.30 flight to Auckland. Yesterday was our trip to Mount Fuji but it rained most of the day and the mountain was in thick cloud. The ropeway cable car ride was also in thick cloud but we did get a dry trip across Hakone lake, in a pirate ship, which is the crater of an extinct 100,000 year old volcano. As we have been going along we thought we would come up with a list of facts about Japa...

Still sorting out how to down load pictures will hopefully get some on the next update. We arrived on Monday after a good flight to heavy rain and 3c-colder than London. The taxi driver we had went to the same school as I did but 2/3 year ahead. I vaguely knew of him as he used to win all the races at sportsday and always came first in the cross countrys. He now lives in St Leonards. Went on a morning coach tour of the city(it has now stopped raining but still...