G’day folks, welcome to our holiday blog. We hope to update it every couple of days if we can get wi-fi so drop back again to see what we have been up-to.

The trip started off delayed there was some problem with the plane and it had to be swapped from a Boeing to an Airbus. We were meant to leave about 9:30 but didn’t board until about 11:30 then there was a delay on the tarmac due to some pretty wild winds and rain. But the flight was pretty good and went 10 hours went fast having 4 seats thanks to the chatting up of the check in chick and the between us and a fantastic mulitimedia screen on the back of the seats that had 100’s of hours of the latest movies, games, music and tv shows.

We got into Narita Airport at Tokyo about 8:30 which was only an hour late. Getting out was dead easy and there was a bus which only took a few minutes to take us to the JAL hotel just around the corner.

The airport is about an hours train ride from the city so we stayed close, we will have more time in Tokyo at the end of the trip. The area was a bit of a industrial airport area so there wasn’t much to do, so we went over to the Sun K Us which is sort of a 7 11 with a strong squid smell, bought a few additional beers for later and went next door to the little Izakaya Bar for some goyza dumplings and some gydon and noodles then a few beers at the sky lounge on top of the hotel before going back to the room to get some sleep for our trip to Paris in the morning.

The hotel wasn’t too bad for a ‘free’ hotel one highlight was the toilet, yes like most Japanese toilets it had all the squirty things and buttons but there was this pretty interesting sign on the bottom of the lid warning people of the dangers of the toilet.