Wow. Hello and welcome to the Aborn Japan podcast. Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broder, but joined, as always, by England's Top Japan enthusiast.

Mr. Pete Donaldson, who continues to be in a Glasgow region hotel room as part of his tour

that he's doing around the UK.

Pete, have you used the DeLongi coffee machine behind you?

And how are you doing?

I have.

I made myself a tiny little coffee.

The problem with those machines is

I never know. You get given a cup like that and there's three settings on it on the coffee machine

and it's small, medium or large and you don't know whether a large would fit in this cup. So

I've just had a very, it feels weak, but it might actually be quite strong coffee so I don't know I'm trying to sort of

cut down a coffee consumption and trying to remove salt out of my diet so it's been a it's been

an interesting week of like high alcohol lots of sweets but not many crisps my crisps levels are

very low at the moment so we'll see how that one pans. I've also used the hotel gymnasium as well.

Oh, a flawless.

Hang, why are you cutting salt out?

Rewind a bit.

What's getting on with the salt?

I was feeling, I was feeling a bit...

We don't really get into my health problems, but I did notice that I did have slightly higher blood pressure this uh last week so uh i thought uh i better uh sort that out

because uh won't be able to get a doctor's appointment so i'll probably have to just figure

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