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Just checking in from Japan  [message #62272] Wed, 05 May 2010 11:09 Go to next message
timmy

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Having an amazing time here, and am exhausted. Three nights in Kanazawa, two nights in Nikko, rest day tomorrow. Just grabbed some computer time on my son's laptop. Back in the UK on Monday.

No cute boys so far, but, somewhat amazingly, the girls seem to have boys' legs from the knee down in so many cases. Some have boys' thighs, too! Most confusing! And the current fashion is for the girls to have their legs out on display.

We're 'following' my wife's grandfather. He was a professor of English in Japan and he spent some time in Kanazawa and then Nikko in about 1910.

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Re: Just checking in from Japan  [message #62273 is a reply to message #62272] Wed, 05 May 2010 14:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Just checking in from Japan  [message #62274 is a reply to message #62272] Wed, 05 May 2010 14:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Just checking in from Japan  [message #62279 is a reply to message #62274] Wed, 05 May 2010 23:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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!@#$%^&*() !

Enjoy your holiday, timmy. Think Paul might like some pics?

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Last two days  [message #62295 is a reply to message #62272] Sat, 08 May 2010 03:38 Go to previous message
timmy

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So much left to do, and some will just not get done. This is not a low cost nation at all and we'll get to the end of our budget before we get to the end of our to do list. Such is life, especially since I doubt we'll be back.

It's very strange how the girls are cute here - they make a huge effort to be cute - but the boys are just simply not. They seem to act in an over macho way which spoils any beauty they fail to conceal.

Prince Philip is an arse when he says that all "slitty eyed people" (awful man) look the same. There looks to be more ethnic diversity within the Japanese people than with whatever the native English hapen to be in England. And that's before you look at different features. As you would exect, everyone looks individual.

Every time I pass a westerner on the streets I feel that they are strange here, and then I realise that I am as well. Either the Japanese are too polite to stare, though, or the western face is not as unusual as I think it is here.

I still find the regimented politeness somewhat too much. I wonder if it's a hangover form the old feudal times or simply a necessity for living in crowded cities.

And yet the area, Shibuya, where I'm staying just isn't crowded. Well, Shibuya Crossing is; it's the one you see on TV when you watch TV pictures of crowds on Tokyo.

I love the quiet residential enclaves hidden just off the main avenues.

Heading off for lunch now. We're meeting some of my son's friends at what I think may be a Mexican restaurant!


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