What an amazing country - they all seem to love classical music, eat the most delicious food, but hardly anybody speaks any European language and you feel completely lonely and, indeed, pretty much lost. If it wasn’t for the nice pictures in the menues of a restaurant, I would have to order my food without knowing what is going to be served. I haven’t been to Japan in some years, and I had forgotten how isolated one tends to feel in a city of the size of Tokyo with soooo many people and nobody to connect to. (more…)