It was my last day at Nokia on Tuesday, and it was Zaras last night in Tokyo, so we met in Shibuya and went to Christon Cafe, a final visit before leaving the city. Then on to meet Charles and retire to the Pink Cow for a quick half before leaving too late to catch the train home…
Then wednesday was mostly spent packing and cleaning, with a bit of final shopping for toys in the evening and a last night out with Tracey, Damien and Peter.
“There are some things you’re gonna miss about Tokyo, right?”
“Like neon”
“And musicians on the streets”
“And punk dogs…kawaii”
Yesterdays flight was unexciting, except for failing to land on the first attempt, the previous plane hadn’t cleared the runway so we aborted approach at 500ft, to circle around again. This seems to be happening more and more at Heathrow these days, which suggests their pile-em-high, sell-em-cheap approach to airtravel is cutting it a little too close to the safe limit of what can be achieved with their current runway resources. Terminal 5 can only help this situation….wouldn’t it be better to build up Luton or Stanstead or Gatwick instead? Especially given the traffic situation on the M25 in the Heathrow area. M25 full of holes again.
Then, as a demonstration that the UK can be crazy too, if it puts its mind to it, we passed a bunch of rods on the way home, the most spectacular being a kustom hearse with cruise lights. Wrong, so wrong. I love it.
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