Archive | February, 2007

Lost in Translation (and Tokyo)

By on February 7, 2007 in Japan, Part of a big whopping trip, Travel wanderings

First thing I noticed about Tokyo? How quiet it is. Sure, their street signs and advertising styles are loud, but you can hear a pin drop in the middle of Ginza. The trains are quick and silent, where you can’t even use your mobile phone. There is minimal traffic, as everyone’s crowded onto the trains. [...]

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Bon voyage!

By on February 1, 2007 in Part of a big whopping trip, Travel wanderings

I have a feeling that I’m a bit of a boring traveller. My sister has got an extremely unattractive photo of me reading an info wall on bells at the Bell Tower in Perth. Bells, for God’s sake. (But they were interesting! Some of them came all the way from Buckingham Palace!) So this time [...]

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