The trip over here

There's a nice bamboo siding above, although in the picture it's hard to tell, there's actually a family of panda bears living in this railway siding...

To the left, notice how every country looks the same from the air.

To the right, the route we took over Europe.  It's not so much a route over Europe, as a route over Russia.  We also hit the land/sea border, and for some reason headed due south for an hour, instead of heading straight to Tokyo.  I guess it's for noise reasons.

This picture may not look impressive, but the car park and shop, and the train line are approxiamately fifty feet in the air, looking down at the 'ground' came as quite a shock...

Below:  An example of the squeeky clean suburb.  Although my hostel is a dive, the town around it is all clean and shiny.

And to make as little sense as possible, here's a picture of me ready to depart in Heathrow.  The very first leg of the journey.