Tokyo - Tuesday 5th May 2009 It peeeeeeed it down today :( Good thing I remembered my brolly otherwise I would have gotten completely soaked. The little canvas shoes I was wearing are ruined, but the rest of me is ok! However, even if I hadn't remembered my own brolly, I would have been able to pick one up outside very cheaply as they were being sold everywhere! The fashion for brollies over here seems to be for the long ones with the crooked handles. They ...

I had a really nice day in the park today, and it was nice to be able to have a walk around and then relax in a nice park. It was pretty packed with people though, but I was able to find a nice spot to have a sit down and read. I did have to zone out the thrash metal band rehearsing in the arena behind me though....perhaps that's why there weren't that many people there! I did also have to deal with this Indian guy called Ali who thought that he could chat me ...

Ohmigosh. Tokyo was crowded today!! I knew that this week contained a couple of holidays, but it seems that the whole of Tokyo was out today! I had looked up a Japanese website whilst I was in Sydney that said this week - Golden Week - was the worst time to travel and I think I experienced it today!! I had to queue a couple of times just to get to the ticket barriers! It was madness! However, there was hardly any shoving or pushing or people tutting and sig...

Got really frustrated this morning trying to buy a train ticket as I couldn't find a machine with instructions in English, and then when I found one, I had to have some kind of travel card thing (like our Oyster card)!! Made my way to the travel centre, but the lady I got couldn't speak English! I wanted to buy a day pass so I could just go around on the train, but I couldn't really explain that in mime to her!! I went to a different part of the station and fi...

Had a really long day today, and it's quite weird being in Japan after being in Australia for so long. Tokyo is also SO different to Oz, and the UK, so my eyes are popping out of their head at everything!! Last morning in Cairns was a little sad as it felt really weird leaving. Packing up my stuff just felt odd at first, but then I was actually looking forward to getting on with my journey! I managed to leave a few things behind that I didn't need anymore, an...