Checking in

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I've got a decent internet connection at last, and I'm listening to Jenny Kendall-Tobias from Osaka in Japan, where I'm staying with Cari from New York, who is an English language teacher here. She has been an absolute angel, giving up her day off to take me down on the bullet train to Hiroshima. We looked at all the sights, starting with the Peace Dome where I posed my BBC Radio Guernsey journal (photographhere. It was a lovely day, and Cari took a photo of me with (cherry blossoms on my head.http://static.flickr.com/35/123137544_d055e4bebf_b.jpg) Now we're back in Osaka. I've brought Cari a couple of packets of Tim-Tams from Australia, and I've bought some weird Japanese sweets. I'm off to Hong Kong tomorrow and Paris the day after.

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There are more Americans here now than there used to be when I worked here in 2001-2002, exchange rate is better for us(though not this week) and worse for the Aussies.