From Ramen to Pork Pies

Day Four: Thursday 13 April 2006

After waking only had time to pack and spend half an hour on the free hotel internet before we had to make our way to the airport. I sent a group email to friends with a short description of our Tokyo stories and checked out my flickr page and saw Kklarence's comment on my ferret saver photo. Took the 1 hour local rapid JR train to the airport. Spent our last remaining yen on a present for Maddog - a set of sake shot glasses with erotic japanese illustrations. Checked in without hassle and boarded our first BA leg, 1.00pm flight to London. Not too impressed with BA though. They gave away my vegetarian meal to someone else, and had to prepare another one for me. And I had to sit next to a very obnoxious Nigerian businessman who stuck his elbow into me for the entire flight. He also thought he was being discriminated against when I got a random customer survey form and he didn't. He wasn't even sitting in his allocated seat - he should have been in the row infront next to the couple with a child. I watched movies pretty constantly - Pride and Prejudice, Transamerica and The Producers. Only managed to get in a couple of half hour naps, so it was a long 12 hours.

Landed in London at 5.30pm local time, but it was much later according to our body clock time. Tube to Maddog's place in Clapham North. We bought our first London lager and sat outside the Clapham North Pub to wait for the Dog to show up after work and take us back to his place. Drank more beers and caught up on all the news. Gave Maddog his present, which he loved, and we listed to the CD I bought in Tokyo - "Pussy Cannibal Holocaust". He had a present for me too - a pack of pork pies! Which we all shared while drinking away the rest of the evening, till we crashed around 10pm.