I’ve had a lot of downtime today, but instead of doing something useful like writing this, I’ve been reading a book instead.
We’ve just boarded our flight back to NZ so I just have a couple of minutes to write before they close the doors and we have to put our phones away.
It’s always a pleasure to get back on an Air NZ flight on the last leg home, and hear the Kiwi accents of the flight crew.
Spent the night at the cheap airport hotel Simon had booked. Walked to the airport to check in and then had some time to spare so we went to the open air old farmhouses museum. We’ve been to a couple like this elsewhere in the world in the past and they’re great. A real insight into how real people used to live.
The taxi driver, who spoke no English, originally tried to drive us into town for the Osaka expo so it was lucky we nipped that in the bud. Although he did charge us for the detour which was a bit mean.
They had around 12 old houses for us to look through, all hundreds of years old. There was also an old Kibuki stage.
All the buildings had been dismantled from their original sites around Japan and brought to Osaka back in the mid of last century.
We got back to the airport in plenty of time and flew All Nippon Airways to Tokyo. We had a four hour stop over there before boarding this flight. I’d originally planned to buy some sake and plum wine but chickened out and will now see what’s available in Wellington.
OK run out of time now, NZ here we come.