Christian, Cass, Ant, Jess and Emily went home at the crack of dawn.
Austin and Kaori stayed in the Hilton and ate bacon.
Freyja, Simon and Ross vanished into deepest, darkest Nagoya - which is possibly the hottest place in the world at the moment.
The rest of us went to the Nagoya Castle.
While we were planning this, Lindsey mentioned that there might be time to go to the electricity museum. Why, I wondered, would anyone want to do that?!?!?!?! Seemed that Ian wanted to do that. So did Freyja and Simon. The Builder thought it might be quite interesting too. So in the afternoon all of them, plus Ross went to play with power. Lindsey, Judy and I had a spot of lunch and then went to the Noritake Gardens to play with china, pottery and dinosaurs (an odd combination in my view!)
Austin, Kaori and Zoy went back to the wedding venue to collect various things that had been left behind.
We all met for dinner.
And then it was Monday. Lindsey and Ian were off to Hiroshima. The Builder and I accompanied them as far as Kyoto, had lunch and returned to Nagoya. It really does seem to be hotter in Nagoya than anywhere else. We walked up to the Noritake gardens so The Builder could see the dinosaurs. Alas, they are closed on Mondays. Even more alas, we turned too early on our way back to the station and had much too long a walk in the heat and humidity back to the hotel to collect the luggage. We met Austin and his entourage at the station and farewelled Zoy who was on his way back to Melbourne. Everyone else went to explore the bottle shop. The Builder and I took the shinkansen back to Tokyo. and now here we are in a budget airport hotel, very handily located next to Terminal One ready to leap out and head back to London.
Austin - we would have made the 17:33 Narita express with about 5 minutes to spare. But I would have been Very Stressed Indeed about missing it. And it was no hardship to wait at the station for the 18:33. We found a seat and ate rice thingies and drank coffee and watched commuters squishing themselves into very very crowded trains.
Oh - and my phone charger eventually turned up, hiding in a generally unused pocket in my backpack. So I thin that is all the lost things now turned up again - apart from a couple of train tickets but they were not too onerous to replace
What the hell is happening in London? I don't know - turn my back for ten minutes and they start rioting!!
Thank you everyone for a really lovely time in Japan. It was great to see everyone. And a great privilege to be at the wedding
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| Nagoya Castle. Click on the photo for the rest of the album |
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