Apologies for the lack of post updates recently. This is because I have been TRAVELLING ALL AROUND THE GLOBE*. This post will be dedicated to my time in Japan where I met my older bro and sis.
Seeing as me, my older bro and sis we're all together in Japan for Christmas, we all had a Christmas skype session with the rest of the family back in Blighty. Got to watch Lizzie Babes' (a.k.a the Queen) speech over the webcam connection too which made me feel extra patriotic. Whilst saying good bye, and attempting a kiss to the webcam (I sight to die for, ladies) Mum exclaimed that my face looked like an anus. Cheers ma.
The toilet seats at the house were heated. I foolishly said that it was an unnecessary commodity. It's not, it is wonderful. Really really wonderful.
Had a travel pass to use the Japanese rail system, and so did a bit of travelling around. Went to Kyoto for a night. At our accommodation we were given a bizarre tour of the facilities (which pretty much solely consisted of looking at one toilet, going outside to see the 'other half of the facility' which was just another toilet) by a Japanese man whose mannerisms suggested he took Fawlty Towers as an instructional video of how to run a hotel. Our room was literally right outside the reception, and so we woke to yet more of his tours in the morning, although one party only got half shown around as I was using the toilet at the time (they literally missed half of the tour). Abused my brothers' fluency in Japanese to get some random girls to take some photos with us (whilst we wore Pikachu costumes) in a photo booth. It's not as weird as it sounds. Maybe it is.
Definitely is.
Headed up to some town called Takayama which pretty much no Japanese person has ever heard of, excluding the ones that live there (perhaps including). Managed to get the female receptionist there to come out and do Karaoke with us. Studs. Bro asked her to translate a fortune he'd received that day and under the 'love' section she could barely get the words out she was giggling so much. She was hot for us, no(t much) doubt. Went to visit a Japanese folk village whilst we were there, so bought some bus tickets to go. I thought 2 minutes before the bus was to arrive was enough time for a cheeky toilet trip. It turned out it wasn't. It definitely could have been, but due to unforeseen circumstances (toilet accident, details intentionally omitted) it wasn't. Also managed to lose my wallet on this day (later to be recovered). Needless to say, that day was a bad day. On the way back to Tokyo stopped off in another town for an hour, had a refreshing snack of ice cream + egg + cornflakes. Eggsellent.
Went down to Tokyo/Yokohama. Went to some properly weird anime shops (don't judge) on my brothers quest to purchase the Pikachu costume (fair play) that we had worn a few days prior (hello ladies). When I say weird I mean the really bad weird, not the bad weird. Got back to the flat one night to find a guy pissing on the floor by the front door of our apartment block. We walked straight by, pretending it wasn't ours (slick), only to find, once we had returned, a traffic cone was placed on the area of the crime. That's Japanese courtesy at it's finest.
* 2 countries.
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