Journey there

FRANCE

We just sat three hours in a plain. We’re now in Paris’ Airport, Charles de Gaulle. Boarding will begin any minute now. ANTICIPATION MUCH? I love being aboard on a plain and I get like HUGE kicks every time one takes flight 8)

Our plain from Helsinki was on time and our one to Narita (Tokyo) seems to be also. So no problem until now –our only worry at the moment is our luggage and whether it’ll end up in Tokyo or in Egypt.

It’ll be a lot of fun sitting in the same spot with the same crying babies around in an altitude of 10 000 metres for the next 12 hours.... Well, really, I don’t think it’ll be that bad, last time was fun atleast! We’ll be asleep for most of it anyway.

It’s so weird, I’m continuously like “Where did all the blonds go?” In Finland they’re EVERYWHERE. Here, we’re practically the only ones XD haven’t yet seen any beside us o__o

TOKYO

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand we have arrived in TOKYO, City of Destiny! The flight was longer and more uncomfortable than I remembered it to be and well. I have to say this. We went to Paris for nothing. NOTHING.

Imagine this. You’re in a plane, have been for over two hours. Before that you were on another flight, duration about three hours total. There you are, watching some stupid movie or whatever you enjoy doing in a contained space with a hundred other uninteresting passengers. Suddenly you decide to see the travel map which tells you where you are at the moment. And you are about 100 away from WHERE YOU STARTED EIGHT HOURS AGO.

Yeah, fuck me. Or us, rather.

So there went that morning and our journey could’ve been just that much shorter. But we flew over Mäntsälä, so everything is fine!

It took about an hour to realize the utter waste we had spent our morning. Well, not realize, but diss it and our decisions. Another hour went to Mäntsälä feat. Sininen ja Valkoinen!

But now we are in Tokyo, in a bus to be accurate, going from Narita to Haneda and we have all our luggage and even though we’re shit-tired (and its about seven in the morning here) and worn out –all is good. Because in under six hours we’ll probably be at Nagasaki Kagamiya and happyhappy (~n__n)/

NAGASAKI

We're here. After about 25 hours. And it's hard to stay awake. But we will! And we're off to go to 7eleven or some shop like that.

+I'll hurt someone someone if I don't get my computer's akkupiuha to WORK. It won't fit the adapter and RAAR. I is mad.

T O M O R R O W

Oh God, we're really leaving in about 24 hours! It's hard to believe and I'm -excited is not explanatory enough. I'm just compleately stressed about my luggage and am SURE that I'll leave most of anything important home. Or forget my passport. Or something of the like.

Anyway.

OH MY GOD. It's really hard to comprehend, I'm just picturing myself and Mia in the plane waiting for the small, cold lunch/dinner/something in between, having a fat man between ourselves and the hallway to the bathroom and having to suppress sudden explosions of excitement and refrain from running in the corridoors. Well, that's how I'm going to be at least, Mia'll probably behave better.

I'm also already picturing the time we're going to be for example in Kyoto's Rokuon-ji (the Golden Temple) and then suddenly it bangs to my mind that YEAH, I STILL NEED TO GET MY FLIP-FLOPS or something. Like, anticlimax much to that train of thought? XD

Okay, now really moving on.

Yesterday I FINALLY reserved our Nagoya residence Hostel Ann through Hostel World (because they didn't answer to our e-mail reservation and we had to pay 1,5€ to Hostel World as a process fee or something like that. It was my week's food money now I'm broke :<) and only our Tokyo accomodation is still a question mark~ But that depends on Akane also so no can do.

Today we'll go to Prisma and buy food (RUISLEIPÄ), and I'll go get my yen:s from FOREX and then the rest of the day I'll just walk around and be afraid of whatever I'll forget. AND then I'll go to say goodbye to my sister as she is in a horsebackriding camp some fifteen kilometres away. I thought she'd be at the airport to say our goodbyes but she won't be and I'll just hide in my closet and cry now. But I guess it's better as this way she won't see me going and probably it'll take a while for her to notice I'm really gone. I still notice though, and I miss her already, despite having seen her on Saturday when we took her to that camp. Of course there's a ton of other people that I'll miss but she's just -always there, you know, and it'll be hard when she won't be.

I'll stop now.

So, I'm really almost packed, I'll just have to get all my electronics in one place and decide what I'll use as my hand-luggage (?) bag and I'll be done! And find those flip-flops, of course.

But yeah, it's half six in the morning and my being bored has obviously correlated to the length of this entry. I'll just be on my way to eat lunch now.

Hello!

Oh, this is the firts time that I write to our English blog. Wohooo! :D I just decited to update this a little. I just booked our hostel in Kyoto. Now I have to wait for an e-mail from J-Hoppers Kyoto. I hope that the place isn't full yet. :o Anyway, we also have booked our hostel in Hiroshima. It's also J-Hoppers . ;D Those hostels sounded really nice so I'm exited to see if it's true. :D We noticed some problems with our hostel in Osaka so I hope everything goes ok and that we can change our time stayig there. That stupid hostelworld.com changed the days and now we would have to arrive to Osaka when we arrive to Hiroshima. -___- Stupid computers..

Oh well, after 6 days we are leaving to Japan.. I can't wait anymore! :D After that we try to update almost everyday!

But now I have to go..

I'll write again! ;D

~Mia

Travel course, accomodation version 1

Our course has now taken a shape like this:

• Nagasaki 24.6 - 1.7 (Elina?) accomodation: Nagasaki Kagamiya
  
• Beppu 1.7 - 3.7 (?) acc: Beppu Guest House
• Fukuoka 3.7 - 7.7 acc: International Hostel Khaosan Fukuoka
  
• Hiroshima 7.7 - 14.7
  
• Osaka 14.7 - 21.7 acc: Hotel Taiyou
  
• Kyoto 21.7 - 28.7 acc: Kyoto Globetrotters Hostel
  
• Nagoya 28.7 - 4.8
• Tokyo 4.8 - 17.8 (Akane?)

So far the list looks like this, but the only certain one is Nagasaki Kagamiya as it is the only one we've reserved. Changes are possible and probable, nothing is set into stone. These cities are mainly the ones we spend our nights in (in which we reserve our hostels in) but we will run around in the neighbourhoods and surrounding cities. We'll update the list as we change our plans. (The people in parenthesis are those who we're possibly meeting in those cities.)

So. Nagasaki Kagamiya. In Hostel World the running commentary is very positive (94% positive in fact) so at least my hopes are up! We'll spend seven nights there before moving on to Beppu and try to accustom ourselves to Japan without a greater culture shock. Last time I was in Japan two years ago I had NO culture shock whatsoever but well -anything is possible.

The cost of the hostel was 236.93€, divided by two meaning it's about 118€ per person.

MIA'S MOTHER, who helped us by paying the 10% booking charge (neither of us have Visa), WE SALUTE YOU.