The final video from Japan, this shows the volume of people wandering across the road at the main crossing by Shibuya Station. It actually got far busier an hour or so later.

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Just a quick video compilation of the arcade in Narita I popped into and the Pachinko palour in Shibuya. One more video to come. I’ll likely post it tomorrow once I’ve got Windows 7 working, or figured out how to stop the Movie Maker in my XP from locking up all the time.

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We hopped onto the tube which took us to Meiji-jingūmae station. Outside, we got our bearings and walked towards the nearby city park. This surrounds the Meiji-jingū itself – the shrine to the Emperor Meiji. Right by the gates, an artist had spread out a lot of examples of his work in front of a [...]

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Today was my second and last full day in Tokyo – and Japan. Situations at home necessitated booking an earlier flight home than I’d hoped, but there’s not a lot I could do about that. I’d managed to organise a couch to surf for the evening, and Taka-san said it would be no problem for [...]

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Narita is not a big place, so exploring it in a day was going to be easy. The tricky part is not getting lost in the windy alleyways which turn out to be fully-functioning streets. Only small. And windy. Having a good sense of direction here isn’t an advantage, it’s a necessary survival tool. I [...]

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Clock up number 47, if I have my maths right. I’ve finally made it to Japan! I ended up having to get the bus to Cairns Airport as the weather was so bad. It’s not a long walk (around 1½ hours) but in torrential rain it just wasn’t happening. Thankfully this meant I got there [...]

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After meeting my first hostel-owner now driving tour buses across Kakadu, I was surprised to see a familiar face outside my hostel in Cairns when I arrived this morning. None other than Heath, the man who instructed me through my Open Water PADI course over two years ago! We got talking and he’s still with [...]

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Another airport post, this one from Darwin International Airport. I’m heading to Cairns, have 6 hours to wait until my 3am check-in and have free wi-fi. Annoyingly, I only have an hour’s battery left on my laptop and none of the plug sockets seem to work here. Grr. Once more as I move from city [...]

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A veritable nature trail over my handful of days here. On Thursday, Katie and Ben drove me to the nearby Fogg’s Dam reserve. It’s quite a small place, but very pretty and loaded with birds. There are a handful of crocs around here, too – one persistent salty in particular – but mainly it’s our [...]

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Time for the final stint. I woke and had a simple breakfast of very bad cereal. What country would allow Sugar Puffs without the sugar onto the market? It’s like grains of polystyrene only more tasteless. And I bought it by accident. Orienting myself again using the sun, shadow positions, bird flight patterns, and the [...]

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