Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3F8A04BC.3070904@hotmail.com...
> 
>>Those of us who've only managed to go to Japan twice 'ave to endure this
>>constant taunting. If it wasn't making me feel all so inferior I'd jump
>>up and say "I'm as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore", but I
>>just feel so overwhelmed in your presence. And the tourist in Okinawa
>>doesn't it any easier.
> 
> It does pain me that I couldn't take the real Japan, and had to drop out and
> settle for this pale shadow. Sometimes, as I watch the sun sink into the
> azure sea, sipping awamori and listening to the breeze rustle through the
> sugar cane, I feel a pang of nostalgia for the black, sludgy waters of
> Nagoyakou.

You resided in minato-ku? For some reason I thought your previous hotel 
was further from the black sludgy stuff.

> But we all have our crosses to bear. I try to bear mine taking an example
> from the English, by keeping a stiff upper lip and drinking way too much
> alcohol.

An invoice for membership dues for the Wanderer's Cricket Club is on its 
way.








-- 
Great moments in Australian diplomacy, Kirribilli, 1975

"Look, Michael, you can argue until you're black in the face, but 
wherever Ansett Airlines is involved it's always the nigger in the 
woodpile."

Charlie Jones to Papua New Guinea's head of government, Sir Michael Somare