Highlights, lowlights, and tremors!
Have just had another long weekend, and so had lots of plans, fun, and food! Here are the highlights and lowlights :
Highlights
- Amazingly wonderfully incredible chicken fajitas in The Shack in Hiroshima....and onion rings!!!
- Staying in my first ryokan...wasn't really basic and authentic (it had a TV, bath, and hot-brush!), but it was still cool..thanks Selene!
- Having a night out in a big city, and loving the dancing in our final port of call, Mac club. JETs, other random foreigners, and Japanese folk...diversity is great!
- Finding the Mac club, and escaping from El Barcos, and Marine hell!
- Lunch at Anderson...always a pleasure, never a chore!
- A nice spot of shopping in some cool Hiroshima lil clothes shops...'etre au point' is fab!! I love my new top!
- Yakiniku back in Yanai...our first one since Korea....and definitely the best!
- Sunny monday! For a day I thought that summer had arrived (today it's raining and cold again!), and Kat and I enjoyed the shopping in the coolest lil stationery shop on the white wall street. I have a new dangler for my phone...and stickers!
Lowlights
- Getting the tram all the way out of central Hiroshima to try and find an all-you-can-eat/drink pizza place...only to find it had closed down!
- Arriving at The Shack to find an hour wait for a table...we finally ate at about 10pm. I get very quiet when I am hungry, so I think I was mute for about 4 hours that night!
- El Barcos...awful!
- Getting mascara in my eye, and having stinging, streaming eyes for 20 minutes!
- Waking up on sunday morning after only 3 hours sleep (we went to bed about 6am..we had to get up at 9am, to check-out at 10am)...my eyes were tiny, and not even mascara could make them look awake that morning.
and the tremors?....
On sunday morning, me, Alex and Louise were sitting in the cafe in Hiroshima station, eating breakfast, and feeling a little.....weary!!! Suddenly I realised that the floor was rumbling underneath me. I looked at Alex, and she was obviously feeling it as well, cos she looked as confused as me. For a minute, I wasn't sure whether I was (a) just really hungover (b) feeling a train rumbling along underneath the station...but then quickly realised how dumb I was, cos there's no subway in Hiroshima ...or (c) experiencing an earthquake! Yep...that's right folks...it was answer (c)...an earthquake. Everyone started looking around in bewilderment, and we quickly noticed the lights swinging, and the plants outside swaying. I'm not really sure how long it lasted...but not too long. People went back to their morning coffee and croissants, and we carried on chatting, and speculating about where the earthquake had started. Louise was due to get the train back before Alex and I, and so we were just about to see her off, and had exchanged goodbyes, when we realised that people were gazing up at a TV screen in the station. The news was on, with info on the earthquake. Alex, with her great Japanese, quickly informed us that the quake had started in Fukuoka (the prefecture below our very own Yamaguchi!), and was a level 6 (I think)..there was also a tsunami warning! Eek! All the trains (bullet and local) were cancelled, and so Louise was stuck with the unfortunate task of coming for lunch with me and Alex in Anderson...oh how hard life is! By the time we headed back to the station at 3pm, the trains were up and running and again..and we headed home. Everything was in order in my apartment, nothing had fallen off shelves, so it was obviously not too bad in little Yanai. Hope everyone else wasn't too freaked out by it, and hope you've got no breakages!!
Highlights
- Amazingly wonderfully incredible chicken fajitas in The Shack in Hiroshima....and onion rings!!!
- Staying in my first ryokan...wasn't really basic and authentic (it had a TV, bath, and hot-brush!), but it was still cool..thanks Selene!
- Having a night out in a big city, and loving the dancing in our final port of call, Mac club. JETs, other random foreigners, and Japanese folk...diversity is great!
- Finding the Mac club, and escaping from El Barcos, and Marine hell!
- Lunch at Anderson...always a pleasure, never a chore!
- A nice spot of shopping in some cool Hiroshima lil clothes shops...'etre au point' is fab!! I love my new top!
- Yakiniku back in Yanai...our first one since Korea....and definitely the best!
- Sunny monday! For a day I thought that summer had arrived (today it's raining and cold again!), and Kat and I enjoyed the shopping in the coolest lil stationery shop on the white wall street. I have a new dangler for my phone...and stickers!
Lowlights
- Getting the tram all the way out of central Hiroshima to try and find an all-you-can-eat/drink pizza place...only to find it had closed down!
- Arriving at The Shack to find an hour wait for a table...we finally ate at about 10pm. I get very quiet when I am hungry, so I think I was mute for about 4 hours that night!
- El Barcos...awful!
- Getting mascara in my eye, and having stinging, streaming eyes for 20 minutes!
- Waking up on sunday morning after only 3 hours sleep (we went to bed about 6am..we had to get up at 9am, to check-out at 10am)...my eyes were tiny, and not even mascara could make them look awake that morning.
and the tremors?....
On sunday morning, me, Alex and Louise were sitting in the cafe in Hiroshima station, eating breakfast, and feeling a little.....weary!!! Suddenly I realised that the floor was rumbling underneath me. I looked at Alex, and she was obviously feeling it as well, cos she looked as confused as me. For a minute, I wasn't sure whether I was (a) just really hungover (b) feeling a train rumbling along underneath the station...but then quickly realised how dumb I was, cos there's no subway in Hiroshima ...or (c) experiencing an earthquake! Yep...that's right folks...it was answer (c)...an earthquake. Everyone started looking around in bewilderment, and we quickly noticed the lights swinging, and the plants outside swaying. I'm not really sure how long it lasted...but not too long. People went back to their morning coffee and croissants, and we carried on chatting, and speculating about where the earthquake had started. Louise was due to get the train back before Alex and I, and so we were just about to see her off, and had exchanged goodbyes, when we realised that people were gazing up at a TV screen in the station. The news was on, with info on the earthquake. Alex, with her great Japanese, quickly informed us that the quake had started in Fukuoka (the prefecture below our very own Yamaguchi!), and was a level 6 (I think)..there was also a tsunami warning! Eek! All the trains (bullet and local) were cancelled, and so Louise was stuck with the unfortunate task of coming for lunch with me and Alex in Anderson...oh how hard life is! By the time we headed back to the station at 3pm, the trains were up and running and again..and we headed home. Everything was in order in my apartment, nothing had fallen off shelves, so it was obviously not too bad in little Yanai. Hope everyone else wasn't too freaked out by it, and hope you've got no breakages!!
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