I just returned from Japan, where I saw actual cherry blossoms. It was nice, but I didn't manage to find an entire field of them. Now that I'm back home I'm glad, Australia is an excellent country and I don't know why anyone would want to live anywhere else.
....Though I do miss Japanese trains... so fast, punctual, and soooo efficient. Also their society is so polite as a whole, it was great for tourism. Oh, and their toilets, with warm seats and just general...cleanliness. The public toilets I've been to, you can generally smell before you enter, but in Japan it was like using a toilet at home. I wonder if they just employ more cleaners or if Japanese people have just learnt to piss in the toilet instead of spraying it all over the floor.
I think the nicest part was probably meeting friends I hadn't seen for a while. There was my friend who I'd not seen for a whole 5 years, then other people who I'd not seen for many months due to my work or their work committments. We had such a good time together, I'm glad I went on this trip. It wasn't quite what I expected (I thought I'd come back with a giant body-pillow with some naked girl on it), but it was actually a rather educational trip with all the places I'd visited and the experiences I had. My only regret was that I didn't learn more Japanese before I went, and that I didn't try hard enough to speak it when I had the chance.
Anyway, my holiday is almost over, and I need to get back to work soon. It'll be fine, I hope, getting back into rhythm when I've had such an excellent time overseas.
