Chapter 5- Wednesday 18th June
It is warm and humid here but still pleasant apparently it gets hotter later in July. We will be good though lots of places have aircon and you walk underground a lot.
There are whole long streets that are undercover with high high roofs and air-conditioned!!! Go figure!!!?? And of course SHOPS!!! I am so in heaven here I can’t tell you!
Jack had organised for us to go out to lunch today to meet with some ‘musician’ friends of his
Michael (who is a wedding celebrant/musician/magician and all around good guy………I gotta say that cos he is going to read this!!!) also his mate Brent who is also a musician. They work together at weddings and restaurants.
Jack said “Today we are going to our fav ‘Italian Place’ as it is the owner Pietro’s birthday."
So off we walked (again) down a new street……….”where am I again?” We passed this building covered in ‘man made’ vines like jack in the beanstalk. I asked Jack what was the reason and he said that is was a ‘Love Hotel’!!!! I raised my eyebrows with the odd look saying “What for prostitutes?” Real subtle like……….and he said “NO!!!” Its for lovers to visit on a short stay (a few hours!!) “OK!” I left it at that. I didn’t have my camera with me so I have to go back (only to take a photo………I know what you are thinking!!!)
We met the guys at the restaurant and Pedro arrived so of course (being musicians) we all burst into “Happy Birthday’ in 5 part harmony. Pedro was very impressed and shouted us a bottle of champagne. The food was great and the company even better. We had a great time bantering back and forth across the table. Michael pulled out his party balloons and ‘blower upper’ and made me a fabulous big red flower (to the amusement of the guests around us) I gave it to Pedro for his birthday so Michael made me a purple poodle. The guys have a wonderful dry humour and we had fun outdoing each other. Michael mentioned how nice it was to converse in this way as he misses it not being able to connect like that with the Japanese (lost in translation!!) Michael has lived here for more than 10 years and so has Brent so they speak and read the language really well. After a very liquid lunch we staggered home via the shops (of course) as Jack wanted to show me where I can buy wool (to make my nifty bags……….I think that the Japanese are going to like them and buy them from me!!) There were also great walkways with funky jeans and clothing (Brian was off on an errand so I will take him there to look for some cool jeans!!) He makesa da money I spenda da money.
After being at home for a while and discovering BLOGGING we decided to stay home (sore feet) and Brian whisked up a miso soup meal with noodles (very quick and easy and yummy) and we watched a ‘South Korean’ movie with Japanese subtitles…………lucky it was an action movie with an under water monster that eats lots of people and takes them down into the sewer and stores them till he is hungry….. no language required.
And now stay tuned for the next exciting episode of ‘MARTINS IN JAPAN!’
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