martyn has just got blog gadget working and it's posted loads of
things we had typed in apparently .
We made it to Nagoya yesterday - although martyn is gutted as he has
just read we missed out on portable karaoke machines in ueno park. I
am feeling grateful for small mercies.
Today was our most complex day so far - we were up early again to get
the train to the Toyota plant which involved two trains and a bus
journey.
The (trainer) lady in the train station who could speak perfect
english but struggled with her train timetable gave kay a set of
cryptic post it's with the station names and the train times - we
managed them all perfectly! I think kay actually was more fascinated
by the prius assembly line and welding shop than I was - she got left
behind the tour group and I had go and get her. I think she could stay
watching the whizzy robots welding two car halves together in less
than two minutes.
The main assembley line actually makes about 4 different cars models
at the same time but was perhaps the size of two or three football
pitches - quite small we thought.
Martyn was outwitted by the bus ticket machine on the way where first
you took a ticket when you boarded the bus, then when you left posted
the ticket into the machine by the driver along with your exact change
into the same hole - I think this went against my vending machine
karma - paper and coins into the same hole seems all wrong!
Later we (just) made the train from Nagoya to takayama where we
sit now in our temple inn, here is a slightly blurrey pic of the view
on the train as we travelled up here.....
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