A British vacation (but I'm also going to Japan)

[rbjhan]

Your mum might enjoy this

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Do you want nice restaurant or bar recommendations?

Restaurants yes please!

 

[VPS]

Restaurants yes please!

Wedgwood the Restaurant

Truly passionate about food and wine together. A relaxed and enjoyable evening with great food to match - The perfect night out in the perfect surroundings.

www.wedgwoodtherestaurant.co.uk

Monteiths – KITCHEN & coughTAIL BAR – EDINBURGH RESTAURANTS They have a great selection of coughtails as well

The Bon Vivant Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Expertly constructed fine cuisine in Edinburgh city centre served in an elegant yet relaxed atmosphere

bonvivantedinburgh.co.uk

Monteiths would be my favourite

 

[rbjhan]

Wedgwood the Restaurant

Truly passionate about food and wine together. A relaxed and enjoyable evening with great food to match - The perfect night out in the perfect surroundings.

www.wedgwoodtherestaurant.co.uk

Monteiths – KITCHEN & coughTAIL BAR – EDINBURGH RESTAURANTS They have a great selection of coughtails as well

The Bon Vivant Thistle Street, Edinburgh

Expertly constructed fine cuisine in Edinburgh city centre served in an elegant yet relaxed atmosphere

bonvivantedinburgh.co.uk

Monteiths would be my favourite

Ha I've already booked Wedgwood.

 

[VPS]

Ha I've already booked Wedgwood.

Was that on my recommendation or you had already found it

 

[rbjhan]

Was that on my recommendation or you had already found it

Ah I didn't word it very well, I booked it some weeks ago.
Am looking at the other two now!

 

[rbjhan]

Right I've made it to the 3rd leg. In 13 hours hopefully will be landing at LHR.
ANA The Room is truly something!'

 

[rbjhan]

Sadly the old seats on 787 are really not good at all.....

Well I've landed!

 

[rbjhan]

Hello from Tokyo!
Mother and I survived two weeks in England, and Scotland, barely.... stories to come!

Next two days will be a lot of soaking in onsen and not much else, I need it!!

 

[rbjhan]

First time using Smart EX to buy Shinkansen tickets, it is great!
Loaded them straight onto ic cards to enter station. So much better....

 

[rbjhan]

Great news! We made it home, in one piece mostly...

Bad news, my computer died....So the TR will be postponed, till I get a new one!
My old one was a Dell Optiflex or something, the mini desktop. It worked quite well for me, any suggestions?

 

[VPS]

Great news! We made it home, in one piece mostly...

Bad news, my computer died....So the TR will be postponed, till I get a new one!
My old one was a Dell Optiflex or something, the mini desktop. It worked quite well for me, any suggestions?

I want to like and sad so I'll just say no idea for computers

 

[rbjhan]

I want to like and sad so I'll just say no idea for computers

Doing my research atm!
I'll get one soon. Can't live without it....

 

[kookaburra75]

Great news! We made it home, in one piece mostly...

Bad news, my computer died....So the TR will be postponed, till I get a new one!
My old one was a Dell Optiflex or something, the mini desktop. It worked quite well for me, any suggestions?

Depends on your needs - which doesn't help I suppose. Laptops have come down a lot in price - I have an Acer laptop with a docking station so I can use a normal monitor, keyboard, mouse at home. MIni PC's have come down a lot in price., and there are a lot out there. Online stores such as Kogan, GKKTec have good offers.

 

[rbjhan]

Depends on your needs - which doesn't help I suppose. Laptops have come down a lot in price - I have an Acer laptop with a docking station so I can use a normal monitor, keyboard, mouse at home. MIni PC's have come down a lot in price., and there are a lot out there. Online stores such as Kogan, GKKTec have good offers.

Decided on a Geekom, we'll see how that works.
I don't really have space for a laptop since I have external keyboard and two monitors....

 

[rbjhan]

The new computer has arrived!
I'm still setting it up but I think we can finally start with the TR proper!

 

[rbjhan]

Obviously we start from MEL.


Technically the MEL - SYD tickets were a gift from ANA.
Don't ask, I'm not sure how it works either! But it was Y
So I got me and mother in the lounge via AMEX.

Landed at SYD ontime, actually, about 10 mins early!
Took the TBus to International.
Was advised we should use the Air NZ lounge - Silver Kris was already closed Do they not have flights later??

Food was, well slightly better than the Virgin lounge.
There was exactly one hot dish excluding the rice, so it disappeared in mins after being brough out...

 

[rbjhan]

At the gate there were some issues with mother's UK Visa....so we were stuck for quite a bit and missed the J boarding...
When we got to our seats J was full.


I was feeling quite exposed....not a fan of the seat I'm afraid.
A wrap around headboard would do wonders here...


Amenity bag, pretty basic.


* But the shopping bag turned out to be very useful during the trip ha ha.

 

[rbjhan]

Food was ....not great...
There's a Japanese option, a western option, that's it. I'm not fan of grilled Salmon so went with the western meal.
Errr


That steak was....


I had ramen later.


And a light meal was served before landing.


This was def below SQ, CX or CI I'm afraid.

** Mother had the Japanese meal and she liked it.

 

[rbjhan]

Landed at HND about 5.30am local time.

Shower first.


Did ANA hire some intern to do the interior design? If you can call it that...maybe they didn't...
I mean, I can line rows and rows of chairs up....it doesn't require any skills.


Japanese people are normally quite good with this....I am so confused.


At the far cornor there were some seating with privacy. So we parked ourselves there.


Now I realised I didn't take any picture of the food! Must be too shocked by this lounge.
But yeah, some basic Japanese breakfast thingy, and ramen.

This lounge is not going to win any awards.

 

[rbjhan]

Finally we are getting to the good thing, The Room!!

I managed to grab two seats in the small cabin just behind F.


So wide it can probably fit two.
Only two rows in here. Not a fan of facing backwards so I picked row 6.


The window seat.


When you close the doors...
The gap is a bit strange, but you need it to push the door back.


I declare this to be my No.1