- heh, a funny one: Cliff got stopped on the way through the scanners at the Gold Coast departure check-in! He had a tube of toothpaste that was over 100ml i think, and the guard insisted on the following the letter of the law, which is that anything labelled over 100ml (or whatever it is) must be disallowed on carryon luggage. Nevermind that the tube of tootpaste was over half empty! Furthermore, after the guard inspected Cliff's aftershave, shook it and said 'its half empty anyway, you can have it', he didn't want to extend that logic to the toothpaste! Crazy eh. Lost his shampoo the same way
- I've got a slight chest infection i think, coughing up a little bit of phlegm
- saw a neat ad while reading the inflight mag for 'Blue-V' sunglasses which looked quite interesting. They claim to filter out blue-spectrum lightrays, which supposedly cause 'chromatic abberations', a dilution fo the other colours and a slight haze to our vision which we all accept as normal. This plus polarization makes for very nifty gadget sunnies. Here's a link to read more: sunnies
- on the Haruka train to kyoto (where I ate the sushi-parcel) the ticketman came in to our carriage, doffed his hat, bowed, smiled and said a short greeting to us all, before taking the tickets. Repeated to process at the end, as he backed out the doorway. Very polite!
- So we finally got off the train in Kyoto, and starting walking to our hostel. Unfortunately we walked about 6 blocks too far! Found lots of strange little temples and shrines in the shadows. The bags started getting very heavy indeed ... finally we arrived. I had a plum wine on the rocks, and Cliff had a beer, phew!
