Narita Tobu Airport Hotel - (4am jet lag blogging) As a child I was delighted by testing out toilets in public places. Actually, to be more accurate it was more of a harmless, but no less weird, obsession. Ever since I got the hang of toilet training I became fascinated with the sheer variety of bathroom set-ups around. Would there be posh soap/cheap soap/no soap (have yet to get over my disgust about that last one), would there be hand dryers/paper towels/f...

Taken out to dinner by our Japanese administrators in the nearby town of Kitano, I don't think we were quite prepared (or drunk enough) but who needs dessert when you've got 'Hey Jude' to wash your sashimi down with :) And we didn't even have to move from the dinner table!

No sleep on the plane and it appears to be morning here in Japan! Most forward thinking of them as usual. Though I was greeted by a stoic looking Mount Fuji above the clouds this morning so all is forgiven.