Osaka!

Greetings from the East! I am safe and sound in a cute hostel in Osaka!! I am very impressed and am loving Japan so far! There isn`t a huge amount of English but a lot of the Japanese things are Romanised so it isn`t any harder than navigating around on French trains or whatever.....

I have been up for a couple of days pretty much except for a bit of napping on the plane flights so I`m a bit tired.... particularly because I didn`t go to bed when I arrived today cos I was too excited! I went straight out when I got here and went to Osaka castle which was beautiful! Photo`s soon!! It was traditional Japanese architecture but quite modern by Japanese standards - 1600s..... it had 2 moats with only one way of getting across to stop invaders.... unfortunately for them it didn`t work and they got overthrown!

Then we went to the Umada district and saw one of the whackiest buildings ever.... It looked like something that a child would make out of lego!! It had 2 towers connected at THE top by a couple of floors that bridged THE 2 buildings. In these 2 floors they have cut a THE 2 buildings. In these 2 floors they have cut a circular hole out which serves no real useful purpose that I could determine but it looked cool!! and then in order to get to these floors they have escalators which operate in THE empty space between THE buildings! get what I mean?? neither do I. I will post photos soon!

Tomorrow Nara or Hiroshima before crashing in Kyoto for the next 2 nights then going to see Drew!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!

Happy Birthday Nathan!! Sorry it`s a bit late :)

Drew! I`m coming to see you on THE 22nd? Let me know if thats ok dude!

Crazy Japanese computer keeps capitalising my `the`s and cutting and pasting my sentances all over the place!!

Harigato!