Japan interlude continues for an unexpected week due to complications in the
booking process. Back in Africa on 1st January – celebrating the new year somewhere in the
stratosphere…

Just enjoyed the rather disturbing dish of chicken lanterns – unlaid eggs. Why does this never turn up in chickens bought for roasting in the UK. No worse than a lightly boiled egg… Not disturbing at all – but I drank the goats blood earlier in the year which may have changed my body chemistry…

Visited Nikko yesterday – bit disapointed by the Sleeping Cat, I must say an extra 500 yen seemed a bit steep even if we did see “Shogun’s” tomb…

It is very cold…