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avanti west coast feel good travel. Wow. Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broyer. we're joining as always by England's top

Japan enthusiast himself, Mr Pete Donaldson. Pete, how the devil are you doing?

What's going on?

I am excellent, Chris. I say excellent. I'm a little bit worried that at any point during this recording my

face is going to swell up like a big swollen humescent thing

because I've not eaten anything and that's possibly the problem.

I have just put on a jumper that I found in my cupboard and I can smell that it's very dusty, absolutely moth-eaten and the last time I think I put on this

very jumper when I hadn't worn it for about five months because it was warm.

I started, my face started swelling up because I've got a terrible aversion to dust mites

and their excrements.

So I'm a little bit, so if I start sort of swelling up my

nose starts streaming you'll know why the jumper has claimed yet another victim me me again, repeatedly.

Oh dear, well, we'll know very quickly.

I'm hated by network, Chris.

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