How is this for a recipe for travel related disaster: I have to get from Hiroshima to the Island of Naoshima, the journey consists of a ferry, a bus and three trains (including a changeover time between arriving and depart ing trains of four minutes!) – it's bound to go wrong somewhere, isn't it?
No, not a chance, I even made the four minute changeover at Chayamachi with about three and a half minutes to spare such is the organisation in this country, even the buses on the island are timed to leave just after each ferry arrives. In England the buses would leave two minutes before each ferry arrived, in South America they would leave six kilometres from the ferry terminal from an unmarked building, once a day.
In Naoshima we have decided to forgo the comforts of the first world and rough it with a bit of camping. Granted the tent is six metres wide and bedecked with incredibly comfortable beds, a fridge, a kettle, a heater, lamps, tables, chairs and an umbrella stand, so it is not exactly the kind of tent you see in Somalian refugee camps.
2 comments:
Seriously Magoo, this trip of yours runs smoother than the Cunt United juggernaut. Inject some Chelsea into your travels - more volatility and surprises please... Cracking 3-0 win at Newcastle last night. We're back...
Seriously Magoo, this trip runs more smoothly than the Cunt United juggernaut. Inject some Chelsea into your travels - more volatility and unreliability required for my entertainment purposes. Cracking 3-0 win at Newcastle last night - we're well and truly back now...
Post a Comment