There's often signs in like indecifible characters being like, don't come this way or Avalanche or whatever so. Yeah, if you can't read Japanese on the signs, it's quite easy to go down one of these roads that's like not fit for human consumption. Wow. Hello and welcome to the abroad and Japan podcast. Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broad.. We're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast Mr. Pete Donaldson and he's

coming here to Japan very soon. Yeah. Yeah. For a very short period of time but I am coming. I am up

in the morning and I am booking flights all over Japan to get me, a positioning flight, if you will, to get me to

wherever Chris might be for our little adventure.

I'll see somewhere obscure and hard to read.

The most remote island in the Pacific.

You've wasted my entire six days by making us go to the most remote place in the world.

Yeah.

So I've been up nice and early, book in flights and stuff, so I had to get some liquid wake-up juice. Had to basically drove around for a good 10 minutes around my local area, trying to find someone who would sell me a monster energy drink. Sainsbury's Clod, where Trelmoth's closed. And that makes my area sound very fancy,

because they're the fancy supermarkets in that there, England. But not even Aldi was open at that time either.

So I had to go to a corner shop and thank you to the man who saw me a monster energy drink because I need it.

I need it for my body

I went to Greece for two weeks

I went to Greece and and it was

jet lag of two hours and it still

affects me this age it still affects me

it does my know

two hours two hours and it still did me in

you've got a 40 hour flight to Japan

like in two weeks.

How are you going to see that?

I know. I know. But I'm very much looking forward to it. I've not been in Japan for a little while. And I'm, the plan is basically to get over there for shorter periods, but more regularly, if that makes sense. So maybe a couple of times, yeah, so that will hopefully be happening if negotiations with a Japanese holiday as well the Japanese holiday yeah it's a

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