Miscellaneous Remedies
The car situation is such a funny one. Coming from Japan, I’m used to Toyota Crown’s being the car of choice for Taxis (even though when I think about it, it doesn’t make that much sense). Being a former British colony, of course all the buses are double deckers (I’ve spotted like one normal sized bus, which now that I’m used to the double deckers, it looks very out of place). And the most popular car around here seems to be the Tesla Model S. I tried to count how many I saw but after hitting double digits in less than an hour, I gave up. They were driving in convoy. The reason for their popularity apparently being that while they cost around the same as an E-Class Mercedes, the Merc has its price doubled once you include the carbon-tax. The Tesla does not. Prius’ on the other hand, are rarer than they were back home.
After I wasn’t feeling so well the last couple of days, I appear to have transferred my sickness to one of my travel companions, to the point of wanting to go past a pharmacy so that we could continue to enjoy the city. Even though we were pretty sure of what we wanted, it was also recommended for us to take some frog intestines (to help against a bad stomach that wasn’t the problem) and some foot looking thing (to help against a headache that did not exist). Luckily, they also had what we wanted, but it takes some mind bending before either of those “suggestions” would be something that would work on us, and only if they would have hidden the price tag for them first.
The Science Museum had some fun stuff on electrical circuits (that were actually live and you could switch and connect yourself), a laser beam that was transmitting sound (or was only faking it as putting your hand only very briefly into the path of the beam did not in point of fact cause any disruption in sound), and a liquid nitrogen demonstration. Being in a crowd of kids which actually shoved me pretty hard on occasion without a second glance, was a bit of an experience. But at least the actual demonstration was well done.
Getting home past midnight again, freaks me out a little bit in terms of the public transport. After getting on one of the last trains to go home in Tokyo, I’ve gotten a lot less of a fan of the fact that public transport being something that shuts down. We missed out on the last ferry (which left at 22:50) to take us across the harbour with a view, but apparently the buses stay active through the night. I’ll let you guys know if I ever ended up getting that desperate.
