Wednesday 14 March 2012

Hmm... sneaky early summer trip... maybe?

Yuko's parents (most particularly her father) have said they would like to visit Sado island around June time. Yuko recently had an unexpected short trip for business in Tokyo (just 2 weeks after we returned from our last stay at the end of January!) - which she extended to a week so she could spend time with family and friends in Kobe. I think Yuko's parent's, seeing that it is actually possible to do a short trip (in spite of the circa 6,000miles/10,000km between Japan and the UK!), began thinking that asking us to consider visiting them sooner than we had planned might actually be possible.

Fitting it in around the day job is likely to be the biggest challenge. Also, to save on using up too much holiday I immediately thought of planing the trip to coincide with the one-off two day public holiday in early June on account of the Queen's Golden Jubilee (God bless her!). Doing so would give us 4 days (including one weekend) without having to use up any holiday. Problem is work is busy in the run up to mid June, so unless we can squeeze 7-10 days in at the end of May (which would mean missing the Gary Numan gig on 1st June I've already got a ticket for!) I'm not sure we can pull it of then. Later in June would logistically be more straightforward work wise, but the temperature, and more particularly the humidity (which neither of us are fond of), rises rapidly as each week in June passes.

If we do manage to squeeze in a short break I'd love to go to Sado island as it is the home to the Kodo drummers - of whom I'm a big fan. Who knows? Maybe it won't be possible. But like a lot of things in life one would like to experience - the more you think about it, the more you manage to find ways to prioritise, change plans, etc to make the possibility of it happening more likely. Watch this space... 

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  1. All systems go! More details to follow shortly in new post...

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