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Friday Another lazy morning, coffee and newspapers around the pool. How civilised is that. I’m almost missing the cut and thrust of the daily BREXIT battles between the remoaners and brexiteers, bumping up against one another like angry molecules in … Continue reading →

Monday Up at the crack our sparrows to beat the Manchester traffic; taxi to airport; amazing we manage to get into the escape lounge – priority pass is a rip off. Excellent virgin flight to Orlando. Plenty off free booze; … Continue reading →

Sunday Breakfast on 40th floor. Great views but an expensive breakfast. Set off to the Senso-ji temple. An interesting combination of the cultural, holy and spiritual complete with about 100+ stalls selling all sorts of tat that you’ve neither need … Continue reading →

Wednesday There’s a queue for one of the two breakfast buffets in the hotel – no way. So go down to the gold room, it was worse than St Thomas primary school canteen, complete with greasy table clothes and non … Continue reading →

Saturday Goodbye Celebrity; goodbye food; goodbye free drinks. Catch the shuttle bus to Yokohama station into Tokyo and then onto some unpronounceable station near the luxurious 5 star New Otani Hotel. Arrive wet and dishevelled only to be wiped down … Continue reading →

Blog 1911 to 2211 Tuesday Hakodate Well today we’re in Hakodate on yet another tour. First we go to a fish market to ogle the hairy crabs and some not so hairy but live giant ones. Then it’s the red … Continue reading →

Friday Kagoshima Well today’s sharabang takes us to an Arimura observation platform of an active volcano on Sakurajima. I thought we were going to an observatory at the rim. Turns out we go to an observation platform in the lava … Continue reading →

Monday Osaka Lazy start to the day as we don’t dock until 11:00. Mind you still up at the crack of sparrows in time for breakfast at 07:00. Still sleeping fitfully due to the jet lag. Sumptuous breakfast, with fruit … Continue reading →

Wednesday Drive to Brett’s Set off down to Ascot to stay at Bretts overnight. Only an 8 minute delay, no real hold up. Have I been teleported into some alternate parallel universe? Am I still in Britain? I suffered with … Continue reading →

Well again there’s no daily blog on this trip. Instead I’ve just done the main photos from our French trip to the caravan in Normandy. Sadly in no particular order. France like America is now so much part of our … Continue reading →