More observations from our travels

Malaysia:
I have seen some Arabs eat more than half their body weight for breakfast

Indians, Arabs and Italians do not have a word for queue in their languages

In Malaysia and Singapore you will put on a jumper/ jacket to enter a store/mall and take it off when you leave.

Arab women do not like getting in a lift alone with me…

Singapore:
Singaporeans live in refrigerated underground tunnels called malls

Children’s willingness to study is inversely proportional to the size of the pool or sea nearby

How recently something has been bought or it’s value is inversely proportional to how quickly children will forget it somewhere

Japan:
Do not expect to find any fresh fruit in Japan, or at least any that you do not have to sell a kidney to buy

Japanese toilets have built in bidets and blockage removers due to no one eating fresh fruit or vegetables

Japanese men have no problem with playing ten year olds games on their phones in public

Old people appear to be grumpy throughout the world Bolivian women and Japanese men have a particularly low tolerance for children.

Japanese taxi drivers wear white gloves

Japanese toilets are a slice of heaven and you will miss them when you leave, no matter how weird you find them when you first use them

Japanese wear masks when they are unwell so as not to contaminate anyone else.

Onsen is weird, you will feel more self conscious than you have ever felt as sitting on a bucket scrubbing yourself raw, then bathing in a scalding hit bath with a load of naked men is never going to put you completely at ease.

Japanese men (especially men) are guilty of “all the gear, no idea” especially when it comes to trekking

Japanese train ticket inspectors will bow as they leave a carriage.

There’s nothing that the Japanese like more than a good queue, and will do so at every opportunity

A Japanese persons willingness to help you is inversely proportional to the likelihood of you actually making it there based on their advice

The manga museum, a place full of men staring intently at cartoons of semi naked women, just remember to wash your hands afterwards

In any moving vehicle 30% of the Japanese will be asleep within 2 minutes of the doors closing and 50% within 4 minutes.

Crocs with socks, Nintendo of any sort and a t shirt that says baby doll is not a look for anyone, let alone a grown man on the underground

Wifi in japan is like the abominable monster or women’s g spots, everyone’s heard of it but never found it. Boom boom… I thank you!