mountain trip to Japan

[the_heiress]

Japan was wonderful - well designed, friendly, exciting. It made me remember that Bedfordshire life is not the only life, and that other people might have got the hang of living well better than we have here. Mind you, driving home from the airport we saw a sign tacked to a lamppost on a suburban street: “Have you lost a cat?” with a scanned

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[huskyteer]

Eeee!!

OK, now I really want to go to Japan.

[class_worrier]

Aw, I have to make a pilgrimage to Sarcastic Boy.

[class_worrier]

sarcastic_boy!

[strange_powers]

I'm pretty sure the shop was actually Sarcastic Boy Outlet. As if it were some sort of release valve for the frustrations of sarcastic_boy.

[class_worrier]

I really need to stop creating journals for every name and phrase that takes my fancy.

Oooo, Japan!

[tabouli]

I spent three weeks in Japan in 1998. My favorite of all the countries I've ever been to. Japan is wonderful, as I'm sure you and strange_powers now agree! Any country that invented karaoke has to have something going for it...

[mockduck]

I spot your Trachtenburg Family reference and I claim my prize.
Forgive me for asking, but are you exceptionally rich? Going to Japan nearly bankrupted me and I stayed in the cheapest hotels I could find. That hotel looks so posh..

[the_heiress]

Ha! Your prize is the uneaten Pocky strawberry biscuits which my work colleagues have decided they didn't like the look of. Though oddly, they snaffled all the green tea chocolates within minutes then fought over the pretty tin they came in.

We did decide to go for the five star hotels, yes. The Fujiya was probably the most 'old school' posh for service and Victorian standards, but our eyes boggled when we saw our bathroom at the Imperiral Hotel in Osaka. It had two showers and you could adjust the water pressure of the toilet.

[mockduck]

Mmm..Pocky...

Ah well, good for you, Japan in the lap of luxury sounds very tempting I have to say.

[miss_newham]

Photo please! As if I could love you more!

[the_heiress]

I mentally wrestled with the xylophone, then laid it aside as I'd have had to leave all my clothes in Japan. I'll upload the pics over the weekend, I promise. x

[miss_newham]

Then please excuse me if I am hugely overexcited next time I meet you, though this is my default setting anyway whenever I meet a Livejournaler who can write fine things. And now I have yet another reason to go to Japan!