A very wet and windy Tokyo

We awoke to some rain and also a reasonable amount of wind, mostly due to the Tempura me thinks, and were trying to consider what we should do for the day as out plans for a river boat ride don't make sense. Shortly after breakfast the effects of yesterday slightly fatty Tempura affected Noel quite suddenly and so he was grounded for several hours and in the meantime he spent time updating the Photo Blog, Jennifer did some shopping whilst Noel stayed in the Hotel, its a real pain when I have this problem as I am still learning what food my body can have and not have. Noel also spent some time going over emails from the last one month which required some action including lots of correspondence on a house development in Wey Road where they are trying to extend, it appears, without consideration of neighbours and flood risks.
We were also able to contact an ex business colleague who lives in Osaka who we are meeting up with in approx. one weeks time on the North Coast of Japan above Osaka for a couple of days. He was saying that Osaka Airport would be closed on Monday, tomorrow, and many people have been advised to evacuate. Boy, Japanese has had very bad Typhoons and earthquakes this year, far more than usual and its been very tough for the population.

Shops en route to Temple

We had some nice ham and chicken rolls , home made, and then late afternoon we were both ready to go out for a walk and clinging on to our umbrellas we walked to the undercover shopping streets in the direction of Asakusa Railway Station to purchase a pre-paid PASMO CARD which can be used for trains, and in cafes etc and is very useful. We then found a Starbucks with an upper floor seating area where we enjoyed the views of people running in the rain and when appearing from the covered area, you suddenly see 80 umbrellas getting raised as they cross the street.

Asakusa Shopping Street

We walked back along the long shopping streets, its about a mile long I guess and we bought some bread and then went on to an amazing shop which is on four floors and crammed with everything from bikes, to oranges and t-shirts to TV’s, The aisles are so close only one person can go down at one time and how they manage stock controls is an example to many other companies. Our visit was to purchase either, or and maybe both a HDMI Cable and a small speaker for the PC. The TV channels are mostly in Japanese, of course, and although there are a couple of English speaking channels you cannot read the programme guide to see what's on and so we use the notebook computer to watch films on Netflix. The volume level on the Netflix is very low whilst the picture is small and so not the best for watching films etc. Anyway amongst the piles of stuff we found an HDMI cable and then went looking for a small PC speaker but most of them were Bluetooth Connection and my notebook is a little old and does not have this capability and so after asking store stuff for speaker not Bluetooth, Ah…Only Bwuetooth available.. but then on further investigation we found one with cables and hoped it would work which it did very well.

No Comment!!!

We got home to the apartment and Jennifer cooked up some spaghetti bolognaise and with a glass of French plonk we looked at the Netflix choice. In the end we settled for ‘Gladiator’ and after pulling out some plugs on the TV from their cable system we connected our PC with the HDMI and Bingo  and great film to watch which lasts over two hours.
Gosh the wind is really blowing now and there is nobody on the streets and even our Hotel room which is on the 7th Floor and the top of the Hotel you can hear the wind whistling around the Air Con unites which are on the roof
And so to bed and see what tomorrow brings.