20th May 2007 Last night i was so annoyed, i couldnt find one place in this city that was showing the football. Everybody looked at me as if i was from Mars when i said the words 'FA Cup Final?' 'Manchester United?' 'Chelsea?' even the word 'Football?!' And there was me thinking that the Japanese and Koreans were well into football and Man Utd. That phase obviously ended rapidly, and became history the day Beckham left. A well, so to my dismay, reception was clo...

19th May 2007 Today was brilliant!!! We got up at 7.30am, suprisingly early for once! Think the jetlag phase may have passed! woo! Up early as we went to watch a Sumo Wrestling tournament!! It was ACE! The Kokugikan stadium was only about a 20min walk away from our hostel so great location! It cost us about 11quid each but it lasted the whole day. From about half 8 til 6pm, so got our money's worth. There are 6 Grand Tournaments a year, three are held in Toky...

18th may 2007 didnt wake up today until midday again today - grrr this jetlag malarky is a joke! anyway got up and showered, and headed for the dreaded subway station. got to central tokyo and visited the japanese emporers palace grounds. the weather was so balmy that it seemed a chore as we were also still tired, after another noisy night in our hostel listening to next doors conversation! after that, we got on the metro again and headed for ginza, a nearby par...

16th May 2007 Arrived into Hong Kong, but unfortunately missed the connecting flight at 9.10am but they re-arranged us onto the 10.30am one instead, so only an hour delayed so not too bad. Flight to Hong Kong from Johannesburg took us just over 12hrs. Then flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo took around 4hrs. Hardly got any sleep on the flight, so were exhausted when we arrived in to Tokyo's Narita Airport. As also the time difference is GMT plus 8 hours. It took ...

14th May 2007 Today we haven't done much apart from being in the Sun all day, and i have burnt my tummy and underneath my arms despite using sun cream of FACTOR 15!! which normally you would never catch me doing!! Wow that African sun is powerful!! Done a last load of washing and packed our rucksacks ready for the journey tomorrow which i am a little apprehensive about as usual, but got my rescue remedy calming drops so hopefully i will be ok!! Its a long journe...