Back on track

Wha, and so the blog lives again it seems, it just got a little interrupted by earthquakes and radiation.

Me and Beata have been out on our adventure in Kansai, it was a really memorable trip! We started with what should've been three days in Osaka, but since the trains didn't work because of the power cuts we had to take a night-bus and arrived early in the morning instead. We had a full day with inner town sightseeing and izakaya and the other day was spent in Nara and after that we went to the movies to see Gantz, which turned out to be really good! Then we took of to Iyô-hôjo, a really small town out on the countryside. Actually it was so small we got a little worried about how we could spend the time when there was nothing to do, but our awesome house manager saved us by giving us a ride to the much bigger town Matsuyama, and we got to play with his adorable dog Miyu-chan. In Matsuyama we visited the castle, ate matcha ice cream and went to the shopping district. It was a nice town, and the apartments there was just ridiculously cheap, but I really don't think I could live there, it's just to far away from all other big city's like Osaka and Tokyo. After this it was time for our two days bicycle adventure. It turned out to be the best thing I have ever done, you came so close to the nature and seeing all small country villages up close is memories that will last a lifetime, it was like seeing a totally different side of Japan which hasd so far been limited to the big city's for me. We spent our night at a really nice place on a beach, it even had an onsen, and god knows we needed that for our bodies hurt pretty bad after more than three miles on a bicycle. The next day we got up really early and managed to get to the end of our destination many hours earlier than planned, but it was only a good thing because when we were to change trains to Himeji we ended up on the wrong train and went 1 h in the wrong direction, so it was 2 hours lost to fail haha. But in the end we got to Himeji and could check in at our luxurious hotel, yeah it was nice to spend a couple of nights not sleeping on the floor, even though I have nothing against futons. The next day we went to see Himeji castle, which unfortunately was under restoration, so it was not the most exciting thing, but we ended up at the museum of history and that was both interesting and rather fun, we met this japanese woman whom worked there and we ended up having a long and rich discussion about this and that related to history and religion. Unfortunately the weather was pretty bad and it was moist and rained so I ended up buying an umbrella, which broke just a few days later, and then we went back to hotel to plan where to spend the rest of the evening. In the end we ended up at an izakaya which had absolutely delicious food! The final day was spent sitting on different trains, good I've never been so bored as I was when we sat on our final train, me sitting still on my ass for too long just isn't a big hit. But we passed through this black out area and it was really pitch black outside, it was booth a little scary and intriguing, it really makes you think about how much energy you waste on different things.

After that followed a few easy going days and we decided we're going to Korea! I just know that will be so much fun!

Yesterday, I can't even... I hardly know what happened, it was like that final night last time I visited but still so much not like it. It was just 100% crazy, jeez some guys.... But returning to Tokyo after Korea might be funnier than I thought (A). Well well, now maybe I can start writing on a regular basis again, even though I probably won't while I'm in Seoul...