Distances

L>R: Takeshi, some guy, Yasu

I just woke up from a 14-hour sleep.

I went to Nagoya with Yasu over the weekend to visit Takeshi, a mate who moved there because of work a few months ago.

Yasu drove and it took us about 3 1/2 hours with breaks.
His car has a navigation system (as well as a small radar on his rear-view to show nearby useful things) that simply needed us to punch in Takeshi's address and it did all the work. And yet it never shut up. Every few minutes it was announcing anything from a new area we were entering to the turn-offs we weren't taking. This was on top of the actual directions it was giving.

We left a bit after 8pm and got there around 2am-ish. Ended up finding some space at one end of Takeshi's smaller-than-my-room room a few hours later.

Takeshi took us to Nagoya Castle and he had a friend who guided us around to what was worthwhile.

It was an awesome weekend. The only downside was coming home again. Takeshi's heading back to Aus for another month or so for a holiday over Christmas and should be back before I myself am heading there. He'll be heading down to Kobe to catch up on some drinking before I go (and he'd better).