Not sure why that's the title, not doing that badly here really, just thought it sounded good. I am though in a big city now Osaka to be precise.
I'm afraid I'm kinda lacking inspiration for this entry, not sure why, just not really sure where it's going, so please excuse me if it bounces around all over the place.
This is the end of my second full day in Osaka, having come here from Kanazawa on the thunderbird, on Monday? I've got confused as to what day it is, I had thought I came here on Monday and yesterday was Tuesday, today Wednesday. Which would be fine, except my watch (which is usually right) insists that it's Thursday. To make everything that little bit more confusing my watch is currently working out the date in London time so it doesn't even necessarily say the same day all day here.
Right, now as to what I've actually been doing here. Yesterday (whichever day of the week it was) I went to the castle and the surrounding park which is currently flooded with cherry blossom. Unfortunatly it also poured with rain which I wasn't really prepared for, but I managed to keep out of the worst of it. I also visited the peace museum, but that was more or less it for the day. The only other vaguelly interesting thing I did that day was get completly lost somewhere (I have since worked out where) in the outskirts of Osaka. I seem to have difficulty working out which way I'm facing when I come out of the subway system here, and I ended up wondering off in exactly the opposite direction to which I had intended.
Today I went down to the harbour village area and visited the aquarium and Suntory museum, as well as going on a boat trip around the harbour and watching the Lion King (In Japanese) in the IMAX cinema down there (not sure why, I just felt like it). The aquarium is very impressive with what it says is the worlds largest tank and some very nice non-fish animals as well, inlcluding seals, penguins, and assorted otters (The sea otters which were asleep on their backs when I first got there were particularly sweet).
Posted by Haifisch at April 10, 2003 11:32 AMOK, NOW I'm jealous! You know Sea Otters are my favourite! I look all over the country, Scotland too and can't even find a land otter. I spend weekends building habitats for them but have I ever seen one - no.
So, whilst you look at the "cute" otters, I get sent to Grimsby on placement... still its on the coast, maybe there will be some stray otters there?!
Have a good time, Amy
Posted by: Amy at April 10, 2003 09:39 PM