Snow is Cold

For those that can’t read the title, I’m going to Japan!!! I can’t wait, it’s the place I’ve wanted to visit more than anywhere for as long as I care to remember. I’m leaving on Sunday at 1.50pm from Heathrow, flying with BA to Tokyo Narita, spending around a week in Tokyo and a week travelling West through Osaka, Kyoto and the surrounding area, then heading home on the 7th August. I’ll try to keep the site updated with where I am and post up the odd picture or two. I bought a Lonely Planet guide to Japan in the week so have been reading up a bit on where to go, plus I should be meeting at least 3 of my friends in various places in Japan so I should be all set! Actually I haven’t booked any accommodation yet, but that’s a minor detail.. :)

See you on the other side..

2 weeks ago went to Avoriaz with Brumski. That was cool. Much drinking, definitely feel boarding took a back seat. The weather wasn’t great, but that’s no excuse. Amazingly had a couple of powder days. Not surprisingly had a couple of days of rain, but didn’t seem to affect the snow that much, which was a relief. Much comedy fancy dress, which is documented on the photos page mentioned in the previous post. Highlights were the meal on the mountain as always – we were thrown out for having food fights, being turned away from a bar en masse, some ppl nearly being thrown out of resort by the police, shredding the gnar under beautiful sunshine, discovering awesome kebabs in a mountain restaurant and generally screwing Ed over in ring of fire.

Came home from that and immediately went out in Chelt for Laura’s birthday. Argh. Body was wrecked in time for my Monday return to work, but then to make things better (obviously) went down to London on Tues & Weds for a night out with some Whistler peeps. Met Tiff in the day both days (and Bruno & Rena), went for afternoon tea in the Waldorf, like one does when one is in London, visited the London eye, a Dali exhibition and wandered round lovely Covent Garden. Saw a squirrel in a glass. Witnessed a bit of a pikey fracar, learnt & forgot things, then headed home late Weds for work on Thurs & Fri.

Back down to London on the weekend for a reunion with old uni crew via Al’s on Friday to watch the surreal comedy, “the Green Wing” – quite random. Out in Angel, drinks then dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant which I specified in jest, on to the Ruby lounge nr Bond Street for mental cocktails and to drop a shitload of cash, then back to Angel to be confronted with a massive queue for Elbow Rooms which duly got sacked off. Ended up in some other dodge bar which was rammed, full of smoke, and expensive :) by this time though I was completely off my face, so whatever. Mother of a hangover on Sunday but spent all day in’t pub watching footie and arsing about. Neglected at the train station for half an hour on my return but got to hang out with some ASBOs, then collapsed in bed for work Mon & Tues.

Thank the stars I’m done from now ’til next Weds, which gives me some time to prep for the carnage that’s bound to take place this weekend in Edinburgh. I’m using the time to search for my new job, although I’m presented with somewhat of a dilemma… That’s another post in the making. Will probably be working from home a little bit too. Anyway, that’s boring stuff. I consider this up to speed(ish).

Fin.

Just uploaded a bunch of photos from my recent escapades here, however the upload tool orders the photos by upload date rather than EXIF data.. Anyone know if a Flickr photostream can be re-ordered by date taken without putting all the pictures in sets? Hope that makes sense – I’m kinda tired. Sorry for those looking for going out photos – have decided spontaneously that I’m going to locate them in my Plogger section rather than on Flickr (ah don’t you love the ‘r’ suffixesr), except I haven’t uploaded those yet!

Promise I’ll update the site soon, if anyone cares :)

UPDATE: ok so i found how to re-order the photos in the photostream, but it requires editing each posted date individually, which is buried at least a few clicks deep… it’ll probably continue to bother me until i fix it tho, so perhaps i’ll do that tomorrow ;) hey ho.

Raaaaaaaaaah I’ve booked my third snowboarding trip of the season :D This time I’m off (back) to Avoriaz – place of the *most* near death experience of my life! Heh. Well, Avoriaz, I’m coming back for my revenge… *muha*

The lucky compatriots on this trip are Birmingham uni ski club. I guess this is a bit of a no-no given inter-university rivalry, but hey, all my other hopefuls are either skint, or unable to take holiday having recently started new jobs, so I have no choice! At least this way there’s likely to be an abundance of eligible bachelorettes :p

25th of March is the date, so now I just have to figure out how I’m going to get there and back, having booked accommodation only (I’ve done the coach journey to the Alps before – never again), so could be some more interesting travel experiences in store! 2 weeks to go…

..is another’s beginning. That’s exactly how I feel right now. Being away was unbelieeeevably refreshing!

I’m back home in one piece (more or less), will be writing about recent exploits in the near future. Slept 12 hours last night, work was a mission today, think some chill time is necessary after the self abuse.

Inabit.