cucumber panic

well,so far we are failing miserably on the wireless front so you can't see any piccies we have taken so far,

This post is from yesterday 3rd April...

So today, our first full day in Tokyo and we didn't get lost once - we have a new saying "we're not lost, we are just not quite where we thought we were or want to be..."

Today we tried to go to the Imperial Palace. The Emperor is obviously richer than the Queen because his house isn't open to the public. Neither are the gardens on Fridays -  just like the small print in the book says - doh!

So we tried teh Akasuka Temple which was  nicely shrouded in scaffolding as they work on the outside!
In desperation I took Martyn to Akihabara (also because it was raining) - the gadget mecca, 8 floors I think but even Martyn lost count. Too many things and too much money to be spent but Martyn was very good and didn't buy anything - apparently it was all more expensive than UK

Lunch was yummy- in a bistro type place, Later went to Sumo museum to prepare for a visit to Sumo training tomorrow. Except have now discovered that Sumo training is closed tomorrow. Museum was good though.
Finally we went up Tokyo tower to see Tokyo by night - very pretty lights.
Being as no Sumo tomorrow we are off to bed now in the hope we will wake up in time to get to Tsukiji fish market before it closes......

By the way - did we tell you about the toilets here? They have arms with buttons for bidet functions along with flush colume control and extra deodoriser..........these all go to make normal experiences a little ummm......tentative.......still I'm sure you didn't need to know that.......

Oh and breakfast this morning was our first culinary issue- quite how this could happen to two tee-totalers I don't know. Apparently Martyn didn't notice the large 1.5% symbol on the can of orange and lime juice he bought me for breakfast. Admittedly it looked like it should have been juice, and whoever heard of orange and lime wine? It was revolting, and definately alcoholic, we didn't drink it. The water out the tap herre is very nice!

PS - Claire and Ian, could you possibly check our fridge - Martyn is convinced he left half a cucumber in there..........thanks