Running out of time to get a July blog done, so here it is.....with perhaps another to follow in a day or two. It has been a pretty busy and very interesting month here in Tokyo. Temperatures are rising but we were lucky enough to have a couple of days respite with cool temperatures, courtesy of a passing typhoon.Clara is now about half way through her annual month long stay in Scotland - very strange not to see her, but she is having a great time with her grandparents and it will do her English language skills the world of good. Looking forward to seeing her in a couple of weeks.
As my brother Mark is also in the midst of a long summer holiday, he decided to visit from Hong Kong for a few days. Great to see him, but I spent the days after his visit in detox catching up on lost sleep. Still, in true Skye style, we managed to put in a good shift at the coal face. We found a good place to sup beers very close to my apartment - between the hours of 4pm and 6pm, beers were 99 yen a pint (or 50p in real money).
Apart from the obvious good banter when Mark is around, meeting him at Narita Airport finally allowed me to catch a first glimpse of the Airbus A380 superjumbo. Once they become more common, hopefully my journeys back to Europe will involve of these behemoths. The Korean Air aircraft in the photo only started serving Japan early this month, and a week after I took my photos, it was involved in a rather dicey landing incident at Narita Airport, as seen with the following small image. More crew training perhaps required......
Apologies to readers who are not interested in aeroplane titbits - I will try and do a more crowd pleasing posting very soon.Not too long until Clara returns from Scotland (accompanied by my mother), a week away in Hokkaido, and a short visit to Shimogo in Fukushima. Lots to look forward to, and many good stories to come. Bye for now.
