Monthly archive December, 2007

Narita airport to the hotel

In Japan, the first conversation we had was in French. We were in the train coming from Narita Airport, warily checking our guidebook to see which station we were supposed to get off, when a Japanese man in his late twenties approached us and asked us if we needed any help. Naturally he asked us...

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Getting your passport stamped

Getting through immigration at NAIA was a nightmare. We arrived from Tokyo and started queueing at 11pm. We got our passports stamped at 12:15am. People were squashed against each other, forming lines which merged into one a few metres before the immigration window, causing human traffic, which is not good for the morale of people...

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