JAL Does It Again

Fortunately it took only two days off to get over the cold - most spent either sleeping or eating! The U-City hotel in Narita was, as before, excellent.

We left Tokyo on time and landed at Heathrow 25 mins early. The economy class was over half empty so I had 3 seats to lay out on to have several snoozes during the flight of just under 12 hours. Four films wasted a good deal of the time.

The Premier Inn provided excellent accommodation and the "meal deal" more than adequate dinner and breakfast. After Japan the portions of the meals seemed huge not to mention the ability of overly stuffed UKers stuffing themselves even more - with lashings of pints of beer to wash the food down. Don't mention obesity - it's a national pastime ...

The TV provided us with a ring-side view of the Jubilee Concert held outside Buck House. The odd cut to the Royals were short and sweet which was sensible because they looked bored most of the time ... duty calls and all that. RW&B everywhere. People everywhere. Part of the show was a projection on Buck House - that really look great. There will be a service in St Paul's today but, we're off to Paris using BA ...