Well I started Tuesday 14th October in K's house in Kyoto sleeping on the sofas for a couple of hours as after no sleep on the night bus, and not being allowed into my room until 3pm, I was pretty knackered and needed some shut eye, so in the lounge room it was for me!! It was absolutely pouring it down with rain, so in the afternoon when I'd managed to be allowed into my room, I decided to go for a walk. Not the best idea in the world as within 5 minutes I was c...

Wednesday 8th October 2008 Started my 12 month round the world trip today from Heathrow terminal 5. Was a nightmare as mum drove me to the airport up the M40. Well we gave ourselves plenty of time, but suddenly we came to a standstill as there had been an accident, and we were crawling along at 1mph for over an hour. We were watching the clock and panic was setting in more and more. It got to the point where we had 30 minutes left. I was staring out the window t...