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Tokyo, Tradition meets Technology A Nio Statue with the Un  So.. having been in Tokyo (read about our first few days here ) for a longer stay we have been able to see the sights, and be a bit touristy. Tokyo is a high rise kinda place there is lots of skyscrapers and you barely see anyone around during the day, you just have to figure that there are a lot of people in those buildings that you never see. These sky scrapers are a massive and really bring the definition to the usually cloudy or raining sky. Weather wise we never felt more at home. Clouds have rained and drizzled and generally leaked on us for the last 10 days, but the Japanese people are really friendly one stranger saw we were out and about with our suit cases in the pouring rain trying to find our apartment. He chased us down the road and gave us an umbrella for free. Another gent who was some sort of plumber or handy man, ran round the streets trying to find our address for us and took us right to the door. A...

Japan, A Fiasco in Foreign Foods Arrival We boarded our flights from Istanbul at around midday on Sunday after going through the Istanbul underground system, it was a little confusing as to where we needed to go as neither of us had too much of a clue about any of the Turkish (this really should have been a sign of things to come). Our first flight was good and about four hours long where both of us watched a film before we landed. Upon landing in Abu Dhabi, our transfer stop, we got out the plane and wandered through the halls, the airport is huge there. Eventually around 22:00 we moved towards our gate and got onto the bus. Stepping out of the terminal was an interesting step, it was like stepping into a preheated oven. Scarily the temperature at 22:00 was still around 40 degrees. The plane journey from there on in was fine, we mainly slept for it and then had a chicken pie for breakfast\lunch as the time in Tokyo was about midday when we were landing. Andrew ended up be...